Intent to implement requestAutocomplete

Brian Nicholson

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Apr 8, 2014, 2:24:29 PM4/8/14

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For the past few weeks, we've been working on requestAutocomplete, a
proposed standard for HTML forms that streamlines the checkout flow
for websites. Common payment and address form fields are shown in a
popup UI native to the browser, so all sites using the API will share
a common checkout experience, and previously submitted data can be
reused across sites with no autofill guesswork. The main bug tracking
this feature is bug 939351.

There is currently no formal standard. A link to Chrome's
implementation:
http://www.chromium.org/developers/using-requestautocomplete. Some
discussion of the feature here:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/requestautocomplete.

The plan is for bug 939351 to implement the backend components (form
form submission, validation, and storage). Each platform will require
a separate component to implement its form UI. Right now, Android is
the only platform with a WIP UI component (bug 946022).

For the platform components, I expect this feature to be land by Fx32
behind the dom.requestAutocomplete.enabled pref. On Android, the ETA
(with UI) is Fx33.

Thanks,
Brian

Anne van Kesteren

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Apr 8, 2014, 2:40:55 PM4/8/14

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On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Brian Nicholson <bnich...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> There is currently no formal standard. A link to Chrome's
> implementation:
> http://www.chromium.org/developers/using-requestautocomplete. Some
> discussion of the feature here:
> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/requestautocomplete.

Related to this, https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25235
is awaiting our input I'm told. Background:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2014Apr/0010.html

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Martin Thomson

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Apr 8, 2014, 2:45:24 PM4/8/14

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On 2014-04-08, at 11:40, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote:

> Related to this, https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25235
> is awaiting our input I'm told. Background:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2014Apr/0010.html

In the spirit of ocean boiling (i.e., attempting to create a complete breakdown of address components that is internationally portable), I refer you to RFC 5139. That doesn’t use address lines though, and those are commonplace.

Anne van Kesteren

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Apr 10, 2014, 12:21:10 PM4/10/14

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On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote:
> Related to this, https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25235
> is awaiting our input I'm told. Background:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2014Apr/0010.html

Actually, all of these:
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?component=HTML&list_id=34802&product=WHATWG&resolution=---&short_desc=autocomplete&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr

It would be good if those working on autocompletion took a look at
them and gave feedback.

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MattN

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Apr 10, 2014, 3:34:51 PM4/10/14

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Hey Anne,

I CC'd myself on a bunch of them yesterday but I won't have time to give
thorough feedback until after 29 ships.

MattN