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Use case: an application has a screen for entering new user information. A predictive keyboard cannot effectively predict people names, so input prediction should be off. In addition, filling the field from browser-cached form input data is not useful, as invariably the information needs to be replaced. Suggestion: add a new attribute for the <input> element as a hint to the user-agent that populating the field with cached form input data is not desired (and/or turn off auto-completion). Perhaps something like: <input type="text" name="fullname" private> Or perhaps: <input type="text" name="fullname" autocomplete="false">
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