- From: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:35:59 +0930
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
As part of my original post, I wrote: >>One possible solution that I can see is to have default text forming a >>pattern David Woolley replied: > I think your use of "default" here is a key to the real problem. This > usage of text is not default text it is an instruction to the user. > If it is desirable (and interetingly it was not, in my experience, > used for form controls in pre-web applications), it requires a new > attribute for the purpose, assuming that title is not adequate. > > True default text would be feeding back the user's previous input, or, > more controversially, setting a default country based on that of the > web site owner or the requestor's resolved domain name. I reply: Sorry, that was bad terminology on my part. What I meant was "place marking text". "Default text" is what it is in my programme - the text that is displayed by default, to be changed by the user; in this case, it is place marking text. I seem to recall Chaals stating recently a good reason to carry on using this place marking text, hence why I am trying to work around this problem. -- Matthew Smith Kadina Business Consultancy South Australia
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