I don’t think autocomplete=”no” is valid
I have been using this little link blog thing recently, and one of my big issues is that the tag field has autocomplete on, thus it tries to load previously used lists of tags (and it will be a rare day that a set of 5+ tags applies to more than one link that I log). I looked into the idea of turning off autocomplete, and interestingly while I’ve found the answer it’s apparently a much hated non-standard feature. Our own Grey posted an explanation for its existence in 2005
Normally yes, and thankfully they’re fairly easy to override, but there’s some history here. Basically, it was some backroom blackmail. The big banks and such threatened to not support Moz/FF on purpose unless we all drank their Koolaid and gave them the autocomplete attribute. It soothed their lawyerbots enough, and it’s still fairly easy to override. It’s a case of waving the dead chicken.
Whatever. I’ll be patching my install of Scuttle to fix this soon, but it does worry me that some people have completely eliminated the feature instead of using a lovely bookmarklet.
