[whatwg] Placeholder option for text input boxes

[Andy Lyttle]

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