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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Please. This thread is
not abort how to write JavaScript code in general. It is about how to write
the feature detection code. This kind of code should be especially robust and
relying on deprecated features does not make it more so.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Chris<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> whatwg-bounces@lists.whatwg.org
[mailto:whatwg-bounces@lists.whatwg.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Aaron Boodman<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 01, 2008
6:56 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Kristof Zelechovski<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> whatwg; Joao Eiras<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [whatwg] Placeholder
option for text input boxes</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>2008/10/1 Kristof Zelechovski <<a href="mailto:giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl">giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl</a>>:<br>
> <<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-642250288">http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-642250288</a>>
contains the<br>
> same deprecating statement. <br>
<br>
I think it would be really unfortunate if we followed through with this, and I
definitely think that input.placeholder should work.<br>
<br>
The attribute/property symmetry is one of the longest running traditions in web
development, and makes programming the DOM with javascript much more pleasant.
We shouldn't break with long-established, useful traditions just to make a
small minority of cases more consistent.<br>
<br>
- a <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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