- From: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 08:37:42 -0700
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Brenton Strine >> > <Brenton.Strine at citrix.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Andy Lyttle <whatwg at phroggy.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> > iota. This leans me even more toward a CSS solution. I'll just bite >> > the >> > bullet and bring it up to the CSS WG. >> > >> >> Are you proposing that placeholder could be a positioned object, such >> as an image? > > Not entirely sure what you're suggesting here, but maybe? I feel the same way about what you wrote. (?) > My suggestion was > put forward up above - I would prefer if the placeholder text was replaced > content. You set a CSS rule (haven't decided the best way to handle this > yet) that suppresses the display of a label and instead uses the textual > content of the label as a placeholder. > A <label> element? > Using an image as a placeholder is interesting, though. Designers propose all sorts of things. I know that Google > custom search does that sometimes. Google does all sorts of things, too. And Yahoo, too. >However, I'm fine with leaving that to > Javascript for now, as image placeholders aren't an accessibility concern > like the placeholder-instead-of-label issue is. As well, it's still a > minority technique compared to text placeholders. > > ~TJ >
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