Internet Explorer and Mozilla / Firefox password AutoComplete

Yes, that definitely seems to do it. However, I know at least two sites that accomplish this effect for IE without autocomplete attribs: http://www.blackboard.uc.edu/webapps/login and http://econ.aplia.com/af/servlet/login.

Is there any other way?

I'll deal with FireFox, but I'm creating a webapp using Struts, and the <html:... /> taglib. It doesn't appear to have an autocomplete attribute, so I would need to create my own taglib and extend the struts tags to add it. Can anyone tell me an alternative way around this, at least for IE/Win32? I know I can set the autocomplete attrib dynamically using javascript, but there must be a 3rd way that's I'm missing.

Thanks,

Dan

Excellent readings. I'm not at all trying to discredit floored1585's answer, and (s)he will definitely get points for this. However, the 2 sites I mentioned above -- http://blackboard.uc.edu/webapps/login and https://econ.aplia.com/af/servlet/login -- still do not seem to use the autocomplete attrib or the Gecko workaround. I have autocomplete enabled in my IE browser, yet I do not get prompted to save my login credentials when signing into these sites using IE Win32. For FireFox (Win32 and OSXPanther), however, I do get the prompts.

There has to be another IE/Win32 workaround that we're missing here.

Those websites you listed use JavaScript to submit the data, not just HTML.  Here's a snippet:  

<FORM ONSUBMIT="return validate_form(this)" ....>

They also encrypt the data in JavaScript, changing the data sent (code from first site):

var passwd_enc = calcMD5(form.password.value);
var final_to_encode = passwd_enc + form.one_time_token.value;
form.encoded_pw.value = calcMD5(final_to_encode);
form.password.value = "";
return true;

These actions probably work outside of the capabilities of Autocomplete.

Thank you so much for investigating that for me. You know it's really interesting though, because I used Javascript to dynamically set the autocomplete attribute like so:

function doOnFormSubmit(theForm) {
  // tried different values, i.e. "off", "false", etc.
  theForm.autocomplete = "off";
  ...
  return true
}

That prevented the autocomplete popup in IE (Win32), but it still popped up in FireFox. For these other sites (blackboard and aplia), I also got the autocomplete popup in FF but not in IE. Based on this, I assumed that the IE JScript was properly mutating its internal document.form, but that FF Javascript was not. Based on what you're saying, it appears to be the opposite for the API scoping of this attribute: FireFox hooks Javascript form submits into the FF Autocomplete API, whereas IE JScript form submits do not hook into IE's Autocomplete API.

In the meantime, I have in fact extended the struts html tag library to include an autocomplete attribute when rendering, so that solves the problem for me. Let me keep this post active until Sunday, just to see if anyone else has anything to add, then I'll give you the points.

Thanks,

sophomore

Glad I could help =)