Autocomplete inputs - (and what we will do about it)
Wed, 11/12/2008 - 21:07
Autocomplete
Autocomplete of inputs right now is not standard and not cross-browser compatible. Anyway, we wanted to use it with Qcubed. But we couldn't.
Here it's why:
If you are using firefox3. You'll notice that if write your forms like
<form name="test" method="post" autocomplete="off">Inputs will still autocomplete if you double click on the input
Well... let's try with
<form name="test" method="post" autocomplete="off">
and the inputs with the autocomplete="off" attribute....Still doesn't work.
Autocomplete doesn't work in FF.
What should we do?
We're going to create a SetCustomAttribute for QForm.
If users wish to use autocomplete=off, they should use SetCustomAttribute() on the form.
For SetCustomAttribute on the form, a ticket (7) exists already.
Maybe this gets fixed in the future...
Marcos, thanks again for investigating this. Indeed, we seem to be screwed by the browser incompatibility here - Firefox simply doesn't support this property.
I think as a reference for our users, we should suggest using
SetCustomAttribute("autocomplete", "off")
on both the control and (when we add this feature to 1.1 - with bug #7) on the QForm.
SetCustomAttribute() is now part of QFormBase.
note that this is 1.1.0 functionality, don't check it in on the 1.0.0 trunk :)
Kristof