[Bug 16817] New: What's the difference between input/@title's and input/@placeholder's semantic? Both of them act as the user's advisor and tell you what you can do with the element. "For a longer hint [...], the title attribute is more appropriate." is the only thing I c

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           Summary: What's the difference between input/@title's and
                    input/@placeholder's semantic? Both of them act as the
                    user's advisor and tell you what you can do with the
                    element. "For a longer hint [...], the title attribute
                    is more appropriate." is the only thing I c
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


Specification: 
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
What's the difference between input/@title's and input/@placeholder's
semantic? Both of them act as the user's advisor and tell you what you can do
with the element. "For a longer hint [...], the title attribute is more
appropriate." is the only thing I could read about.

If there's (another) difference, it would be fine to describe it. If
@placeholder is just physical markup (that's what the attribute's confusing
name denotes), then I think it would be better to present @title like a
placeholder using stylesheets instead of specifing a new attribute called
@placeholder.

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