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Bug 9637 - autocomplete IDL attribute should reflect the resulting autocompletion state
Summary: autocomplete IDL attribute should reflect the resulting autocompletion state
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Depends on: 9636
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Reported: 2010-05-01 15:30 UTC by Mounir Lamouri
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:46 UTC (History)
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Description Mounir Lamouri 2010-05-01 15:30:58 UTC 
If bug 9636 is accepted, it would be better to have the "default" keyword for the default state. So, the autocomplete IDL attribute would be able to return "on", "off" and "default" instead of "on", "off" and "". Concretely, it should not change a lot of things but it would be more clear IMO to check for foo.autocomplete == "default" instead of foo.autocomplete == "" which sounds much more like a hack. In addition, we can't be sure if in the future another state wouldn't be added with no keyword.
Comment 1 Olli Pettay 2010-05-02 11:31:13 UTC 
I would expect .autocomplete to return only "on" or "off".
That way script can easily know whether autocomplete is
active. "default" isn't too useful, IMO.
Comment 2 Mounir Lamouri 2010-05-02 11:33:38 UTC 
Indeed, it would be better to have the autocomplete IDL attribute reflecting the resulting autocompletion state which can only be 'on' or 'off'.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-08-24 19:43:46 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale:

I haven't added "default" as a value of the IDL attribute, because that would mean adding a new keyword to the attribute, and I really don't want to start adding new features here. The empty string represents the attribute being absent, this is a common idiom in the language.

I haven't made .autocomplete represent the current state rather than the content attribute, because in general people complain when we do that (citing defaultValue on <input>), and because in general I don't think we want to make it possible for banks to detect when the user has gone out of his way to enable autocomplete even though the page has disabled it.