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I’ve seen autocomplete create plenty of problems. It can break some (admittedly poorly designed) forms outright. Or in others simply create a bad user experienc

by eli 6y ago

I’ve seen autocomplete create plenty of problems. It can break some (admittedly poorly designed) forms outright. Or in others simply create a bad user experience. There are lots of forms that ask for an address but that should never be autocompleted to the user’s address. In practice as a developer you have to resort to JavaScript hacks and obfuscating form field names to avoid it.

larzang 6y ago
Having worked on a number of CRM and other business applications, yep, it's maddening. Not all addresses and names are your address and name.
ehsankia 6y ago
I really really wish there was a way (holding shift, ctrl or something) to only autofill the one field without it goig to fill/replace every other field on the page. It's so annoying when the stuff you just field get replaced just because you want to autofill one field.
- stefan_ 6y ago
  My favorite is when it autofills a whole form that has the field name only as a hint that disappears once it's filled. Of course it always fills with the wrong set of information.
  - exporectomy 6y ago
    That sound's like the form's fault. Even filling it in manually, you won't be able to double-check that you entered the right information.
- rectang 6y ago
  I typically type everything manually in long forms because the autofill tends to get something wrong every once in a while. It's like choosing to drive the car myself rather than trusting the self-driving feature. I figure most people just tolerate wrong inputs and live with the results. (It doesn't happen that often.)
- jessriedel 6y ago
  :/ > It's very hackish way but I found a trick to achieve the same. > So you should go to chrome://settings/addresses?search=address > Now create multiple addresses, each with only one field filled. So one should only have your E-Mail, another record should contain only your first name only, and so on. https://superuser.com/questions/477144/can-autofill-in-chrome-be-reduced-to-single-fields https://superuser.com/questions/477144/can-autofill-in-chrom... A variation: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/31845659?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/31845659?hl=en

by eli 6y ago

larzang 6y ago

Having worked on a number of CRM and other business applications, yep, it's maddening. Not all addresses and names are your address and name.

ehsankia 6y ago

I really really wish there was a way (holding shift, ctrl or something) to only autofill the one field without it goig to fill/replace every other field on the page. It's so annoying when the stuff you just field get replaced just because you want to autofill one field.

stefan_ 6y ago
My favorite is when it autofills a whole form that has the field name only as a hint that disappears once it's filled. Of course it always fills with the wrong set of information.
- exporectomy 6y ago
  That sound's like the form's fault. Even filling it in manually, you won't be able to double-check that you entered the right information.
rectang 6y ago
I typically type everything manually in long forms because the autofill tends to get something wrong every once in a while. It's like choosing to drive the car myself rather than trusting the self-driving feature. I figure most people just tolerate wrong inputs and live with the results. (It doesn't happen that often.)
jessriedel 6y ago
:/ > It's very hackish way but I found a trick to achieve the same. > So you should go to chrome://settings/addresses?search=address > Now create multiple addresses, each with only one field filled. So one should only have your E-Mail, another record should contain only your first name only, and so on. https://superuser.com/questions/477144/can-autofill-in-chrome-be-reduced-to-single-fields https://superuser.com/questions/477144/can-autofill-in-chrom... A variation: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/31845659?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/31845659?hl=en