136414 - Form manager should support RFC 3106 (form field names for ecommerce)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

RFC 2706 defines special form field names for certain types of data - e.g. 
Name:            ship-to middle name   
Form field name: Ecom_ShipTo_Postal_Name_Middle 

I'm not sure what mechanism Form Manager currently uses to decide which data to
put in which box when prefilling forms, but Form Manager should acquire data for
each of these data types, and use it to prefill forms which have the correct
field names. This RFC and Form Manager are tailor-made for each other.

CCing some of the mozilla/browser project, in case they are interested in
implementing this.

Gerv

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

cc'ing hewitt for no reason at all

Comment 2

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

This seems like a great project for someone who's learning to hack Mozilla.

Comment 3

[Mika Yrjölä]

RFC 2706 seems to be obsolete and RFC 3106 the currently valid one. Also, RFC
3505 is worth a look.

Comment 4

[Ben Fowler]

See Comment 2 , Status Whiteboard: [good first bug] ?

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 6

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

The old/complex suite form manager UI is gone, so there's no longer a need to support specific types of field names. Firefox's current form autocomplete will work fine with these fields as-is.

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

dolske: this bug is about the idea that the Form Manager should know e.g. your home address (because you entered it in some config panel), and then when fields appear marked as "home address" fields, it should automatically prefill them without the need for user interaction. I've not seen Firefox do that; are you saying it can?

Gerv