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by makeitdouble 827 days ago
The mobile platforms were a chance to reboot that part, and have browser do a lot more UI wise with custom handling of the different data types (dates, passwords, phone numbers, ranges etc.)

It just didn't pan out to tablets and desktop computers. But it might not be too late ?

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> It just didn't pan out to tablets and desktop computers. But it might not be too late ?

Safari has a caps lock indicator on password fields on every platform, and has had it for several years - at least since Safari 12 on macOS 10.12 (circa 2018), possibly longer, but I don't have an older VM to test on.

Gecko has an open feature request for this, from 2 years ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1757348

Chromium has an open feature request for this, from 3.5 years ago: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40722752