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Or 1Pass does a little bit more smart in checking before randomly entering text? It wouldn't be difficult to catch this

chrismorgan 6y ago
The problem is that all of these autofillers are already way too complex, because almost no one uses the optimal markup (adding the attribute autocomplete="cc-exp-year", in this case)—almost no one has even heard of the proper autocomplete markup here (I remember being in a conference room with two or three hundred other web developers a couple of years back, and the speaker asked who knew about autocomplete="new-password" and the likes; only three of us raised our hands: I and my coworker, and one other). They’re already complex enough that it’s a disaster trying to figure anything out. You say it wouldn’t be difficult to catch this, but either it’ll be a special case finely tuned for this particular site, or it’ll break another site, causing expiry year to no longer be filled out where previously it was and should be.
- bombcar 6y ago
  Where are these various autocompletes detailed?
  - throwanem 6y ago
    MDN has a good list: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/autocomplete https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...
  - JimDabell 6y ago
    HTML 5.2 § 4.10.18.7. Autofill: https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/sec-forms.html#sec-autofill https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/sec-forms.html#sec-autofill
- lamontcg 6y ago
  I wonder how many of those devs use a password manager and just thought it was magic they didn't need to worry about when they were writing those kinds of forms. I assumed that kind of markup had to exist, but its not my job to do web development at all, so time being finite, I'd never seen those. But I always assumed that they'd have to exist if I ever went looking. Why do people whose job it is to know these things not bother checking?
- tpetry 6y ago
  The problem is there are too many standards and they are all clutered on too many websites. I mean there should be a website listing the standard in an easy way.

The problem is that all of these autofillers are already way too complex, because almost no one uses the optimal markup (adding the attribute autocomplete="cc-exp-year", in this case)—almost no one has even heard of the proper autocomplete markup here (I remember being in a conference room with two or three hundred other web developers a couple of years back, and the speaker asked who knew about autocomplete="new-password" and the likes; only three of us raised our hands: I and my coworker, and one other). They’re already complex enough that it’s a disaster trying to figure anything out. You say it wouldn’t be difficult to catch this, but either it’ll be a special case finely tuned for this particular site, or it’ll break another site, causing expiry year to no longer be filled out where previously it was and should be.

bombcar 6y ago
Where are these various autocompletes detailed?
- throwanem 6y ago
  MDN has a good list: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/autocomplete https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...
- JimDabell 6y ago
  HTML 5.2 § 4.10.18.7. Autofill: https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/sec-forms.html#sec-autofill https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/sec-forms.html#sec-autofill
lamontcg 6y ago
I wonder how many of those devs use a password manager and just thought it was magic they didn't need to worry about when they were writing those kinds of forms. I assumed that kind of markup had to exist, but its not my job to do web development at all, so time being finite, I'd never seen those. But I always assumed that they'd have to exist if I ever went looking. Why do people whose job it is to know these things not bother checking?
tpetry 6y ago
The problem is there are too many standards and they are all clutered on too many websites. I mean there should be a website listing the standard in an easy way.