- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:28:42 +0300 (EEST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, David Poehlman wrote: > I wouldn't jump on that too fast but than I don't know about all user > agents. I suspect though that there are still situations where it might be > applicable. I haven't seen people mention any currently used user agents that require nonempty default values for fields. And we _know_ that "placeholder" values cause confusion, since they can be confused with real default values, which are something that the user may actually select. Besides, it may take extra effort to remove the dummy text, disturbing user concentration. Actually, even if there were user agents that require nonempty defaults, it would be better not use them, since on the balance, such defaults cause more trouble than they can possibly help. People who use so dated browsers that they cannot handle empty fields really need to switch to better browsers, since empty fields abound on Web pages. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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