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    <bug>
          <bug_id>10262</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2010-07-29 15:23:25 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>autocomplete attribute seams to do more than it should. There should be a &apos;confidential&apos; attribute that will do all that is mention here and autocomplete=off would only disable autocomplete, but let browsers remember the value for back button.</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2010-10-04 14:48:54 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>HTML WG</product>
          <component>pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>Other</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>other</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>WONTFIX</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-input-autocomplete</bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P3</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter>contributor</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</assigned_to>
          <cc>ian</cc>
    
    <cc>mike</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-admin</cc>
    
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    <commentid>37165</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
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    <bug_when>2010-07-29 15:23:25 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-input-autocomplete

Comment:
autocomplete attribute seams to do more than it should. There should be a
&apos;confidential&apos; attribute that will do all that is mention here and
autocomplete=off would only disable autocomplete, but let browsers remember
the value for back button.

Posted from: 109.111.230.98</thetext>
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    <commentid>38721</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2010-09-09 01:54:23 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>EDITOR&apos;S RESPONSE: This is an Editor&apos;s Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The proposal does not improve the language enough to be worth the pain of convincing banks to change, browsers to change their implementations, etc.</thetext>
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