requestAutocomplete has been removed from Chrome

[Navarr Barnier]

https://codereview.chromium.org/1931043002/#ps110001

I learned about this due to one of my Chromium bugs being closed as "WontFix"

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=456923#c8

Why on Earth has this feature been removed?  Lack of adoption?

[Zach Koch]

Hi Navarr -

Yeah, requestAutocomplete just hasn't seen the adoption we'd hoped from either developers or other browser vendors. We're focusing our efforts on a new browser payment API, paymentRequest, which borrows a lot of ideas from rAc. We're developing paymentRequest in the W3C, so we'd love any feedback you have based on your experiences with rAc.

Thanks,

Zach

[Navarr Barnier]

That's understandable.

I myself don't have any experience, but I do hope whomever else is part of this group will Chime in.

I did have a feature request open with Magento to include it in Magento2 - which would hopefully have lead to much better adoption, but they didn't prioritize it very high. https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/1022