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It's not for the developer to decide any more than the browser. It's up to the user.

• wmil 10y ago
  Except there's no ability for the user to disable autosave on a page specific basis. So if autocomplete breaks functionality then there's nothing the user can do if the developer assumed autocomplete='off' would continue to work. Except disable autocomplete on every site, which is kind of overkill.
  • dragonwriter 10y ago
    > So if autocomplete breaks functionality then there's nothing the user can do if the developer assumed autocomplete='off' would continue to work. Developers should not expect that things specced as hints will be treated as authoritative direction and should not make software that breaks if that unreasonable expectation doesn't hold.