Would having this let authors somewhat more easily work around the
intentionally-unsupported autocomplete="off"?


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On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM 'Christoph Schwering' via blink-dev <
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> Explainerhttps://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/safe-text-input/
> blob/main/autofill.md
>
> Summary
>
> The policy-controlled feature `autofill` indicates whether it is safe to
> autofill fields in an embedded document.
>
> Enabling `autofill` in an iframe signals to the user agent that fields in
> the embedded document may be autofilled together with fields in other
> documents. Conversely, if `autofill` is disabled in a document, the user
> agent may warn the user before autofilling any field in the document.
>
>  A related feature is `manual-text`:
> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5164522274553856
>
> Blink componentBlink>FeaturePolicy
> <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3EFeaturePolicy%22>
>
> Motivation
>
> This specification improves data security while allowing browsers to
> autofill forms more seamlessly: For end users, it is often difficult to
> recognize third-party documents as such, let alone to identify the third
> party and reason about its trustworthiness. With the policy-controlled
> feature `autofill`, the embedding document expresses whether it considers
> an embedded document trustworthy as far as autofill is concerned. The
> browser can use this to warn the user when they choose to autofill fields
> in an untrusted document, or it may even disable autofill. If, on the
> other hand, the document is trusted (i.e., `autofill` is enabled), the user
> agent may treat the fields in the subframe similar to those in the
> embedding document and autofill them all at once. The primary use-case of
> enabling `autofill` in cross-origin frames is credit card payments: for
> compliance reasons, the most sensitive data (card number and CVC) are often
> embedded from a third-party payment service provider in cross-origin
> iframes. With `autofill`, those frames can be marked as trustworthy so the
> user agent can autofill them seamlessly. Today, payment service providers
> work around this using postMessage(): they trick the browser into
> autofilling invisible fields and then send the autofilled values to the
> other iframes.
>
> Search tagsautofill <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:autofill>,
> feature-policy <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:feature-policy>
>
> TAG reviewhttps://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/831
> The TAG review started for an earlier proposal `shared-autofill`. After
> feedback from TAG, we shifted the scope of the proposal from enabling
> cross-origin autofill and other text input to controlling autofill in
> cross-origin iframes. Shopify has expressed support
> <https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/831#issuecomment-2619012166>
> for the proposal. Mozilla
> <https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/752> and WebKit
> <https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/141> responses on
> the earlier proposal `shared-autofill` were neutral.
>
> TAG review statusIn process
>
> Tracking bughttps://crbug.com/40178859
>
> Launch bughttps://launch.corp.google.com/launch/4200980
>
> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Statushttps://chromestatus.com/
> feature/5066686516953088?gate=6437526022127616
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