On 2/18/10 4:48 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
Can we really not try to push this as pseudo-class and educate the masses?
I'm not sure what you're proposing. Something like "input:has-placeholder-showing"? (I guess webkit tried ":-webkit-input-placeholder-mode".)
UAs could do some trickery that their default style rule has higher specificity than style= or some such to work around the issue WebKit ran into.
Uh... Can we please define "some trickery"? Are you talking "any rule with this magic pseudo-class has higher specificity than any rule without this magic pseudo-class"? Something else?
The main benefit of using a pseudo-class is that it allows you to style the input itself, not just the text, right? Is that desirable? Is it desirable enough to rewrite CSS cascading to do it?
-Boris
