- From: Aaron Boodman <aa@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:55:41 -0700
2008/10/1 Kristof Zelechovski <giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl>: > <http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-642250288> contains the > same deprecating statement. I think it would be really unfortunate if we followed through with this, and I definitely think that input.placeholder should work. The attribute/property symmetry is one of the longest running traditions in web development, and makes programming the DOM with javascript much more pleasant. We shouldn't break with long-established, useful traditions just to make a small minority of cases more consistent. - a -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20081001/defaa7cd/attachment.htm>
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