"Stephen P. Morse" wrote:
>
> This thread is about password manager whereas your comment below
> pertains to form manager. There is no automatic prefill for form
> manager so sites are not concerned about being able to disable it from
> the server.
Actually the thread *is* about form manager. A web developer asked if there
was an equivalent to IE's Autocomplete="off" attribute so that auto-fill
wouldn't fill a particular field, say the credit-card field, that the web
author thought was "unsafe" for the user to pre-fill or otherwise wanted to
make sure the user filled by hand and gave some thought.
With this new electronic signature law I can think of another use: you'd
want to be able to turn off auto-fill for whatever field was used as the
(IMHO bogus) "signature" so the user couldn't come back later and claim "Oh,
I never signed that, the computer did it for me without my knowledge". (I
still think we don't need or want this feature, just exploring reasons why
someone might think they want it.)
> Matthew Thomas wrote:
>
> > The second would be to make encryption of autofill data compulsory.
Now that PSM is fully open source we have more latitude to explore this
option. In the past we had to be careful to make sure everything that used
it degraded gracefully without.
-Dan Veditz
