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Revision as of 09:36, 8 August 2006
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If they declare that they are authoring according to a W3C HTML doctype, but use the <code>autocomplete</code> attribute then they are simply generating junk markup (as has always been the case). What they should do is use a custom DTD (as described above). Because of browser support, this is the best option for those who want to use <code>autocomplete</code> for security. | If they declare that they are authoring according to a W3C HTML doctype, but use the <code>autocomplete</code> attribute then they are simply generating junk markup (as has always been the case). What they should do is use a custom DTD (as described above). Because of browser support, this is the best option for those who want to use <code>autocomplete</code> for security. | ||
My suggestion would allow developers to author HTML according to W3C DTDs and disable autocompletion in supporting browsers | My suggestion would allow developers to author HTML according to W3C DTDs and disable autocompletion in supporting browsers, using a namespaced class like so: | ||
<blockquote><pre><INPUT TYPE="text" CLASS="fh disable_form_history" NAME="sensitive ID="sensitive"></pre></blockquote> | <blockquote><pre><INPUT TYPE="text" CLASS="fh disable_form_history" NAME="sensitive ID="sensitive"></pre></blockquote> | ||