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		badman_ting on March 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The war against autocomplete=off (2013) Right, this isn't what autocomplete=off is for. It's for fields where correcting the user's input to dictionary words is of negative utility, for example, typing stock tickers should not correct "aapl" to "apple".

smackfu on March 14, 2014 [–]

Isn't that the "autocorrect" option?

badman_ting on March 14, 2014 | [–]

Duhh, right you are. I keep conflating the two.

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