User:Mconnor/Pending/WeaveContactAutocomplete

Braindumping content here:

• Want to use contact data from Weave to do autocomplete in content.
• HTML5 has "email" type that takes and sanitizes comma-separated email addresses

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html#e-mail-state has the spec.

• Basically, we'd hook this particular input type via a similar mechanism to login manager
  • probably for perf we'd want a generic listener that various services register for
• we can copy/paste code from password manager to do the autocomplete listener bits
• need to do setvalue in a way that depends on whether the input supports multiple emails, and appends rather than replaces if the multiple attribute is true. comma-separated is easy.

open questions:

• support the name+email syntax? feed back to HTML 5 WG? is there an RFC or is this just de facto standard?

"Mike Connor" <mconnor@mozilla.com>

• need a data model for contacts in weave, portablecontacts looks neat

http://portablecontacts.net/draft-spec.html

• how to present multiple addresses per person?

• probably worth bundling frecency-like bits into the data model. need to follow up with portablecontent folks if we want to sync up with them