What's the use case for not allowing autocomplete?
The other problem - that we mostly managed to workaround - is that AngularJS and some browsers' autocomplete didn't go along very well.
2) There is an input for searching by name, email, etc. And you don't want it to auto fill with the users credentials.
Apple has popularized the save field on edit model, so autofilling fields can potentially destroy data in a crud type app.
Even if that wasn't the case, a well design form element that animates (transition in a game) looks very different to a deafault-autocomplete I can't turn off.
This is taking away choice. No more.
The browser is clearly doing the wrong thing.
Perhaps what is needed is autocomplete="secure" where the browser will only autocomplete after challenging the user for a master password.
This enhancement just encourages me to use Chrome less. It looks as though I'm in the minority here, however
Seriously - a number of the complaints on both sides of the issue in this thread point to this. Running a lab and have a problem with autocomplete remembering passwords? That's should be a site-specific setting. Have a physical issue with typing, and use assistive software? The browser should have a setting to get out of the %$&^@*% way. Run your own machine securely (by whatever standards you choose to judge that)? It shouldn't be eBay's, or Apple's, or Google's decision how you choose to type your password.
While I'm ranting, I'm seriously sick of a particular strain of arrogance mixed with refusal to take responsibility that emerges in these discussions. I recently had a discussion where a UX person confidently told me that they did, in fact, know better than I on a similar topic. OK, fine; here's a use case in which it seems that you're wrong. "Well, we can't cover every case; we have to plan for the 80% scenarios".
You know my needs better than I, but refuse to take responsibility when you're wrong? Sounds like a good time to show a bit of humility and allow the user you apparently think so little of to make a choice.
There does seem to be a bit of an arms race with some web sites, though, where the sites manage to break 1Password (whether intentional or not, I'm not sure) and then 1Password fixes it on their end. I wouldn't be surprised if eBay was broken and then got fixed.