- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:35:10 -0500
On 2/18/10 5:21 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > That doesn't seem like a horrible problem to me. Most people don't > set color on inputs I just checked that claim on a few sites (the first ones that came to mind). Most of these are search fields; the rest are login fields. These set input colors: bing.com (but doesn't set background) w3.org These do not: google.com amazon.com (but does set the background(!)) consumerreports.org bugzilla.mozilla.org So all I can conclude is that maybe you're right and maybe not.... > and when they do, it's at least guaranteed that > the color is *usable* for placeholder, even if it's not ideal. Right; it might well make it look like the placeholder is actual text in the field. -Bois
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