Form Filler
Automatic form completion in Web.
Participants
Goals
- Allow filling in forms with as little effort as possible
- Learn from what users enter
- Avoid privacy pitfalls
- Get confirmation before storing sensitive information (or allow undo)?
- Allow having multiple credit/debit cards, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses
- Handle details changing over time
- Try to handle detail changes automatically
- Avoid introducing "management" work for users (eg. having to administer what information is used/stored)
- Provide a way to see what information is stored and allow removing it
Relevant Art
Firefox
Values that are submitted are remembered for individual fields, and displayed as suggestion drop downs when entering text into a field whose name matches the name of the field where the value was originally entered.
Fields only seem to be automatically filled in one at a time.
Suggestions are filtered according to what has been typed - if there are multiple values recorded for each field, only those that match are displayed.
Apparently there is no way to edit autofill data.
Chrome
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/142893
Autofill settings include a list of saved addresses and a list of saved credit cards. Saved entries can be edited, and you can add new ones.
Chrome will remember sets of entered information: if you use a line from an address other fields will be automatically filled with details for that same address.
Safari
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Tentative Design
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