[whatwg] Customize HTML5 forms placeholder style

Tab Atkins Jr. jackalmage at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 09:46:31 PST 2010


On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
> On 2/22/10 12:01 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>>
>> Now if we can just get the Generated and Replaced Content Module
>> implemented...
>
> This would be a lot simpler if CSS actually happened to define box
> generation, say.  Right now it doesn't, really, with the result that even
> box generation for vanilla CSS2.1 is underdefined in many cases and varies
> between browsers.  Forget the complexities the pie-in-the-sky replaced
> content module injects....

Agreed; I wasn't trying to cast aspersions on anyone.  ^_^

~TJ



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