Is there a naming convention for form fields? For what fields do Chrome, IE, Firefox look for? I mean, one for all, or at least most of the modern browsers.
I stumbled upon:
- http://wonderfullyflawed.com/2009/02/17/rails-forms-microformat
- http://acidmartin.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/using-ecml-11-to-make-website-forms-compatible-with-google-toobar-autofill-and-wand/ -> talking about http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3106.txt
- Names of HTML form naming conventions
- Form field names used by personal data auto-fill in browsers (Safari, Opera)
e.g. the ECML approach uses such names:
Description Field name
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ship to title Ecom_ShipTo_Postal_Name_Prefix
ship to first name Ecom_ShipTo_Postal_Name_First
ship to middle name Ecom_ShipTo_Postal_Name_Middle
ship to last name Ecom_ShipTo_Postal_Name_Last
user ID Ecom_User_ID
user password Ecom_User_Password
But those "Ecom_..." form fields appear odd to me?
I know about the IE-only and proprietary (of course) attribute VCARD_NAME="vCard.xyz", but it's an invalid html attribute.
Or is the best shot, to write the fields in the most common way like @F. B. suggests at Form field names used by personal data auto-fill in browsers (Safari, Opera)
Small Update (2015-07-21) - just stumbled upon this Google Developer Blog post which mentions the WHATWG HTML specs for Autofill: