- From: Andy Lyttle <whatwg@phroggy.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:23:10 -0700
On Sep 30, 2008, at 8:33 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: > 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. Except that: 1) the title attribute doesn't behave this way on any other element 2) there's no reason it shouldn't be possible to have both a placeholder AND a tooltip 3) anybody who is currently using the title attribute doesn't expect it to be displayed as a placeholder, so we would break things for them (especially if their title string is too long to fit inside a small field) -- Andy Lyttle whatwg at phroggy.com
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