Wow, nice to see it's such a small change. And using <tag> rather than <span> is a good choice.
Rather than having that funky protected field, how about adding an overload of nextPlaceholder that doesn't take an example, and defaults to <tag> On 2010/09/02 23:40:14, mbx wrote: http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/838801/show -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
