Expose passwords to JavaScript in Credential Management API

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 60)
Intent stage: None

Summary

This change exposes passwords to JavaScript in the Credential Management API by providing the corresponding attribute on PasswordCredential. Furthermore it deprecates the previously existing PasswordCredential attributes and the custom `fetch()` `credential` infrastructure.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-credential-management/
Firefox: No signal
Safari: No signal
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/718416

Docs: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/06/credential-management-updates https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PasswordCredential https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PasswordCredential/password

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