[Zope] IE5 form entry horror.

Martijn Pieters mj@antraciet.nl
Mon, 17 May 1999 11:39:37 +0200


At 03:01 13/05/99 , Anthony Baxter wrote:

>In this case, it can be made to be less of a problem by making the field
>names that you care about have a random bit on the end, which the converters
>remove automatically.
>
>It's also _necessary_ to fix this for the client. The issue in question
>is collecting credit card numbers. If the end user gets their card ripped
>off, it's us, as the merchant, who bears the cost of the reversals when the
>customer rings up and complains.
>
>Expecting this to be fixed at the client side is infeasible - a large
>amount of traffic we expect to see from internet cafes and the like. By
>and large, these places are not staffed with very clueful computer
>support people.
>
> > Afaik, autocompletion on forms is disabled by default.
>
>Nope, it's on by default. there's a tag of "autocomplete" for input type=text,
>but it doesn't seem to let you turn it off.

<INPUT TYPE=text AUTOCOMPLETE=off> or <FORM AUTOCOMPLETE=off> work fine. 
Use one of these.


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