Re: use of placeholder as a label for an input

Hi Maciej,

One clarification on that article: placeholder does not disappear on focus,
> only when you start typing. So you don't have to read ahead of the focus.
> At least this is true in Chrome, Safari and Firefox on Mac.
>

yes I am aware that the default behaviour has been improved since the
writing of the article (time for an update).

regards
steve
On 19 February 2013 09:08, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Feb 18, 2013, at 11:15 PM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all, thanks for your responses so far!
>
> some backstory, I was motivated to pose this question to the working group
> as I have observed people tweeting this post:
> Don’t Put Labels Inside Text Boxes [1]
>
> I also wrote about the placeholder attribute back in 2011 [2] and
> conducted some testing (2012) [3]
>
>
> One clarification on that article: placeholder does not disappear on
> focus, only when you start typing. So you don't have to read ahead of the
> focus. At least this is true in Chrome, Safari and Firefox on Mac.
>
>  - Maciej
>
>
> FWIW I am not married to the idea of having a MUST NOT conformance on
> placeholder, but wanted to ellicit thoughts from others on the subject. I
> do think that addtional informative text would be useful.
>
> [1]
> http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2013/02/dont-put-labels-inside-text-boxes-unless-youre-luke-w.php
> [2]
> http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2011/02/html5-accessibility-chops-the-placeholder-attribute/
> [3] http://www.html5accessibility.com/tests/placeholder-labelling.html
>
> regards
> SteveF
>
> On 18 February 2013 16:54, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The HTML spec currently states [1]:
>>
>> The placeholder attribute should not be used as an alternative to a label
>> .
>>
>> should this be tighened up to MUST NOT?
>>
>>
>> I believe there are cases where having a label associated using the label
>> element may not be required, but can't think of any cases where the
>> placholder attribute text suffices as the only label for an input.
>>
>> thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/forms.html#the-placeholder-attribute
>> --
>> with regards
>>
>> Steve Faulkner
>>
>> <http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html>
>
>
>
>
>


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