- From: Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils-dagsson-moskopp@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:33:05 +0200
Am Dienstag, den 30.09.2008, 08:25 -0700 schrieb Garrett Smith:
> (Nils, did you mean to put this on the list, or is this personal mail?)
I meant to put it on the list - didn't it go there ?
> >> If and until user enters text, the "alternate" text is displayed.
> >>
> >> The confusing part is that successfully rendered inputs would be
> >> rendered and still use the alt.
> >>
> >> The good part is that it would be (or should be) accessible for screen readers.
> > why not just use the title attribute for that ?
> >
>
> Like this:
> <input type="text" placeholder="zip" title="zip">
>
> ?
>
> So when you mouse over the input, the yellow tooltip would pop up.
>
> That's annoying.
No, I meant to abolish the placeholder attribute alltogether and render
the title attribute as greyed-sut inside the search box instead, because
* semantically, the title attribute conveys the same information.
* it is already there in many pages.
Cheers,
Nils
Received on Tuesday, 30 September 2008 08:33:05 UTC