If you're talking about the extra autocomplete attributes, it gives site authors a way to use both the standardized autocomplete fields[0] and different name an

If you're talking about the extra autocomplete attributes, it gives site authors a way to use both the standardized autocomplete fields[0] and different name and id attributes for their own purposes. [0]: http://www.chromium.org/developers/using-requestautocomplete#h.mbcntk221rc4 http://www.chromium.org/developers/using-requestautocomplete...