Why does Safari offer to remember usernames and passwords for some sites, but not others?

May 7, 2006 3:25 PM

Why does Safari offer to remember usernames and passwords for some sites, but not others? Specifically del.icio.us.
posted by airguitar to computers & internet (4 comments total)

For one thing, page authors can code their password fields with the AutoComplete attribute turned off.
posted by odinsdream at 3:52 PM on May 7, 2006

del.icio.us is a Yahoo! property now. Yahoo! tends to disable autocomplete on logon forms as odinsdream suggest above.
posted by machaus at 4:00 PM on May 7, 2006

Because of this in the HTML: autocomplete=off.

I'm also a Safari user and successfully use Autocomplete Always On! to turn off Safari's support for this non-standard HTML.
posted by BaxterG4 at 4:33 PM on May 7, 2006

For Firefox users wondering about this, you can use the remember password bookmarklet to achieve the same goal as Baxter's suggestion.
posted by exhilaration at 9:41 PM on May 7, 2006