spec/Overview.html 1.1644 2473 make note of <select placeholder='...' r

make note of <select placeholder='...' required value=''> proposal
(whatwg r2473)

HTMLSelectElement
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1644.html#htmlselectelement
multiple
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1644.html#attr-select-multiple

http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.diff.html
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.1643&r2=1.1644&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=2472&to=2473

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          http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=426306&cid=22142072
          <Philip`> http://www.ipiao.com.cn/ does <select size="1" name="to"><script>City_Default="PEK"</script><SCRIPT language=javascript 
                    src="/js/flightcity.js"></SCRIPT></select> which is the kind of thing that could be much simpler with <select value="PEK">
+       * a way to make the <select> not have a default value at all (ack 
+         or to have a "placeholer" like value that doesn't count as a value being selected but shows a prompt until a value is selected
+       * once we can have no default, a way to require="" a value.
+       ack Weston Ruter: http://weston.ruter.net/projects/test-cases/html-select-element/
+       q.v. http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-November/017583.html
     --><p>The <code><a href=#the-select-element>select</a></code> element represents a control for
   selecting amongst a set of options.<p>The <dfn id=attr-select-multiple title=attr-select-multiple><code>multiple</code></dfn>
   attribute is a <a href=#boolean-attribute>boolean attribute</a>. If the attribute is

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