Re: [whatwg] The placeholder attribute

2012-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On 22 and 24 Sep 2011, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: The semantics of the placeholder and title attributes of inputs overlap slightly; the placeholder attribute may contain a hint to aid the user, while title is to contain other advisory text. I can think of two valid uses of placeholder:

Re: [whatwg] The placeholder attribute

2011-09-23 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
Should @placeholder be renamed @eg, and used exclusively for example input? On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: The semantics of the placeholder and title attributes of inputs overlap slightly; the placeholder attribute may contain a hint to aid the

[whatwg] The placeholder attribute

2011-09-22 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
The semantics of the placeholder and title attributes of inputs overlap slightly; the placeholder attribute may contain a hint to aid the user, while title is to contain other advisory text. I can think of two valid uses of placeholder: example value, and the text click here to type or

[whatwg] The placeholder attribute - Last Call Comment/Question

2009-10-08 Thread Garrett Smith
Comment on 4.10.5.2.11 The placeholder attribute: What is the user-interaction behavior for this? Should the behavior be specified, or should this be implementation-dependent? http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-placeholder-attribute (is this the correct URL?) Garrett

Re: [whatwg] The placeholder attribute - Last Call Comment/Question

2009-10-08 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Garrett Smith dhtmlkitc...@gmail.com wrote: Comment on 4.10.5.2.11 The placeholder attribute: What is the user-interaction behavior for this? Should the behavior be specified, or should this be implementation-dependent? I believe that there's currently no

Re: [whatwg] The placeholder attribute - Last Call Comment/Question

2009-10-08 Thread Garrett Smith
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Garrett Smith dhtmlkitc...@gmail.com wrote: Comment on 4.10.5.2.11 The placeholder attribute: What is the user-interaction behavior for this? Should the behavior be specified, or should