Intent to Experiment: Autofill event

[Yoav Weiss (@Shopify)]

Contact emails

yoav...@chromium.org

Explainer

https://github.com/WICG/autofill-event?tab=readme-ov-file#autofill-event

Specification

https://wicg.github.io/autofill-event

Summary

Autofill is a key feature of the web that reduces friction for millions of users everyday. But getting autofill to work reliably with dynamic forms across multiple implementations requires jumping through many hoops. This feature adds an "autofill" event that would allow developers to modify their forms to fit the autofilled data and let the browser know when they have done so.

Blink component

Blink

Web Feature ID

Missing feature

TAG review

https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/1197

TAG review status

Pending

Origin Trial documentation link

https://github.com/WICG/autofill-event?tab=readme-ov-file#autofill-event

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

No information provided

Gecko: No signal (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1361)

WebKit: No signal (https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/431)

Web developers: No signals

Other signals:

WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

No information provided

Goals for experimentation

No information provided

Ongoing technical constraints

None

Debuggability

No information provided

Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?

No
WebViews have a slightly different behavior as they don't yet support autofill retriggering.

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?

No
Currently the feature is only tested using browser tests. There's a web-driver bidi proposal to enable its testing: https://github.com/w3c/webdriver-bidi/pull/706/

Flag name on about://flags

No information provided

Finch feature name

AutofillEvent

Requires code in //chrome?

True

Tracking bug

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/466333215

Estimated milestones

Origin trial desktop first	147
Origin trial desktop last	152
Origin trial Android first	147
Origin trial Android last	152

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5137581018841088?gate=5938953633005568

Links to previous Intent discussions

Intent to Prototype: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAOmohSKGDT5iwAZXt-CyR5jSh5Ohr8PJCwsf_KMHEyF_s6xXZQ%40mail.gmail.com

This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status.

[Mike Taylor]

LGTM

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