auto-completion in form fields (again?)

[stephane demurget free fr]

Hi,

(please keep me CC: since I'm not on the list)

Before opening a bug, I prefer discussing it on the list to know if  
this is "won't fix".

In http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2004-September/msg00047.html:
> It seems like Firefox has support for autocompletion of form text
> fields. Is this a Gecko feature, or a Firefox specific extension?
> Mozilla doesn't support this, AFAICT.

This is the only blocker for me adopting epiphany on the long term. I  
always used it for a couple of months, and then have gone back because  
of this to ff a couple of times (well it's already 3 years since the  
first bug report :P).

After having browsed the mozilla source code I think the interface is  
located in satchel. But, pondering mozilla's bugzilla. I got those:
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380963
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239380

They say you can not give a provider for the form contents, so perhaps  
this is  a problem if epiphany stores its own form data ... I do not  
know how it works :)

The main question is: is the satchel API enough at least? (if it is  
the correct one). That would mean special casing for ff though, I  
don't know if this okay with epiphany code.

thanks,

--Stef