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> Except, Google themselves now do "google-chrome-autocomplete-off" and "both" and similar values instead.

That's clearly a suboptimal practice by Google's web team. Which doesn't make Google's Chrome team wrong, but maybe the latter should have a word with the former.




Well, there’s no alternative.

You don’t want the Google search box, or the hidden textfield in Google Docs, or so, to autocomplete.


> Well, there’s no alternative.

Sure, there is. You could do a meaningful semantic autocomplete tag that isn't one of the recognized ones, rather than a variant of "no, really, don't autocomplete this". (Actually, "body" is probably not a bad practice, but the other one was.)




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