Turn back on input autocomplete

[floogulinc]

Now you can type well on mobile!

See Shuo-IRC/Shuo#88

This reverts commit d5fe68b.

[astorije]

Typing well on my mobile, amen to that!! I was fed up with blindly swiping :-)
Thanks a lot @floogulinc!

More information for the curious: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Securing_your_site/Turning_off_form_autocompletion

That's a 👍 for me, awaiting for second review as per our peer review policy.

[JocelynDelalande]

👍 for me.

[JocelynDelalande]

Thanks @floogulinc

[sc0tt]

Can this at least be made a preference? It's very annoying with chrome when I focus the text box.

[astorije]

@sc0tt, this is not desirable, as it fixes a bug. However, I agree with you that the current solution is not ideal. This is due to the fact that autocomplete seems to affect 2 things:

• proposing previous texts entered by the user
• offering typing assistance / autocorrect suggestions

While the first one should be disabled, the second one is a mandatory accessibility component. For example, Android features such as "swiping" a text are totally unusable without it.

If you feel like tackling this, PRs are most welcome. As an example, I noticed that the chat on Facebook, in Android's browser, reacts as expected (no history suggestions, but autocorrect suggestions are on), if one wants to study how they do that.