[webkit-dev] Clearing a textfield's 'autofilled' status on change, not focus

[John Sullivan]

It seems reasonable to me that the autofilled property is only cleared when the text is modified by the user. Since it is a visible change in the behavior, there's always a chance that it will not sit well with everyone and we might eventually have to allow for both behaviors somehow. But it seems like a small enough behavior change that it's unlikely that anyone will care strongly about it.

John

On May 11, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:

> HTMLInputElement's 'autofilled' property is cleared when the field gets focused[1]. This has the visible effect of clearing the pale-yellow background color to white. Safari only seems to use this background-color highlighting for autofill of names, emails, addresses, etc., but Chrome also uses it for autofilled usernames and passwords in login forms.
> 
> In login forms at least, the current UI seems wrong[2]. That's partly because the form is often filled in automatically when the page is loaded (so a script that focuses a field on page load can end up clearing the highlight); and partly because the password is unreadable, so it's impossible to tell from inspection whether it's still autofilled or edited by the user.
> 
> Are there strong feelings in favor of the current UI, or would it be OK to change it overall so that the autofilled property is only cleared when the text is user-modified?
> 
> If the current UI needs to stay the same, could we compromise by changing the behavior of the property in login forms only, since such a change would have no visible effect in Safari?
> 
> —Jens
> 
> [1] See HTMLInputElement::handleFocusEvent, currently line 753.
> [2] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=38386
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