My application is used to assign multiple tasks to assignees within a table. So I have a table with multiple input tags like the ones below. The webapp is based on GWT 2.9.
I use two tags like this
<input type="text" class="gwt-SuggestBox hiddenPrint" placeholder="Enter name or email address..." title="Enter name or email address..." tabindex="51">
<input type="text" class="print-rightField" placeholder="MMM d, y" title="Due date" data-date-format="M d, yyyy" tabindex="52">
to assign a task (first input) via email address and set a due date (second input) field
When using the application in current chrome (91) sometimes (!) google chrome tries to prefill the fields.
How I am very well aware that this issue has been discussed a thousand times on stackoverflow and other resources.
- Stop Google chrome auto fill the input (active over 3 years!)
- Disabling Chrome Autofill
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=370363#c7
So my question is NOT how to fix this. My question is:
I wonder how Google itself makes the browser behave normally for Google applications like Google Ads. I tried to examine Google Ads HTML code but up to now I was not able to find the necessary tweak Google uses in its own coding.
Anyone? Perhaps this is an idea how to circumvent this annoying problem.
Second question:
What do you think is the reason why Google does not fix this issue. If Google wants perfect user experience than it seems not a good idea to interfere with application designers. If the developer set autocomplete to off it might have a good reason? So there must be another very good reason why Google does not fix this. If we understand this reason perhaps we are able to fix the problem or find a workaround.
