Chrome lets Web pages use smarter autofill technology

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I'll be honest here. I disabled Chrome's autofill ability. I hate it.

Google hopes to cut down on Web browsers' autofill confusion.

Maybe it's because I have too many e-mail addresses, or even regular addresses--I moved a lot in the last couple years. Maybe it's because my wife and I use the same computer. Maybe it's because my international life involves too many formats for phone numbers, postal codes, and codes guichet.

But filling out forms is certainly tedious, so I was delighted to hear that there's going to be a way for Web developers to straighten this out.

Specifically, Google and others are working on a technology that will label fields on Web pages so that browsers can know what data they're supposed to fill in--e-mail address, phone number, or first name, for example.

Support for the "experimental" technology is now built into Chrome, Google programmer Ilya Sherman said in a blog post yesterday. Sherman also encouraged Web programmers to try the autofill feature out.

Next up: standardization.

"We've been working on this design in collaboration with several other autofill vendors. Like any early-stage proposal we expect this will change and evolve as the Web standards community provides feedback, but we believe this will serve as a good starting point for the discussion on how to best support autofillable forms in the HTML5 spec," Sherman said.

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I have Lastpass and it does a pretty good job, granted not perfect will fill some in that shouldn't be filled but better than Firefox/chrome by itself, but this move forward will help so much!

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Awesome, now websites can get exactly the info they need to spy on us...