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		yaph on Nov 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't use autofill in your browser Fully agree, using "autocomplete" is misleading. The suggestions that go into auto-complete fields come from the server, autofill from the client.

aaronem on Nov 1, 2013 [–]

You conflate autocompletion provided by the browser, based on values previously submitted in identically named fields, and autocompletion against values provided by the server.

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