Proposed Group: Autofill Community Group

The Autofill Community Group has been proposed by Stephen McGruer:

Every day on the web, millions of users enter information into forms to complete journeys ranging from e-commerce, to account creation and log-in, to government services, and more. Given the onerous nature of re-typing information, many user agents and other “Autofill implementors” (e.g., browser extensions) provide “Autofill” services to aid the user in easily filling in forms. However today, Autofill Implementors have a wide range of capabilities and behaviours, such that both users and websites are faced with different experiences depending on the Autofill implementor being used.

The mission of this group is to provide a forum for Autofill implementors to: develop a common understanding of Autofill and its interaction with the web; discuss and share known issues; and develop joint proposals to improve the experience of Autofill for users and website developers.

This group may publish Specifications.

You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of 5 supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account.

Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as “proposed”; it will be in the list of current groups.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team