[freewheeling]

Sorry, there's a bit of misunderstanding here; I should have made it clearer. Password type fields shouldn't autocomplete on browsers anyway. The "good practice" I meant is for devs to set autocomplete off for the username field - to prevent the login username or email address popping up (especially if the site is accessed on public or shared computers).

[DanBC]

That's just infuriating. You're choosing to break functionality that I rely on to help me log in to your website, and there's absolutely no reason to do so.

> especially if the site is accessed on public or shared computers

People setting up those computers need to learn how to provide clean sessions for their users, rather than relying on every single website in the world doing weird things in forms.