Re: HTML-Validator: x-autocompletetype

Jens Oliver Meiert <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Apr 2020 15:40:14 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.validator
Message-ID <CAJ0g8QQcv3t9escyRO8WSfrpKbEif_wNJZENnO2ig7XGr0-J6g@mail.gmail.com>
> This is my Error: attribute x-autocompletetype not allowed on element inp=
ut at this point.
>
> x-autocompletetype is a Google-Chrome feature since a few years and maybe=
 this should be a warning and not an error, because you could use this to s=
upport the attribute "autocomplete".

Standardization is sometimes influenced by what a single vendor
implemented proactively, but usually the process works
differently=E2=80=94note, for example, the W3C standardization process:
https://www.w3.org/2019/Process-20190301/. I have no recent
information on `x-autocompletetype` and any standardization efforts
around it, however you get this validator message because it=E2=80=99s not =
yet
part of the HTML standard, and as it has not been done in a way that
would be otherwise compliant. The validator seems to respond
correctly.

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Jens Oliver Meiert
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