You're right, I will consider this! Thanks. I will try to post what I came up with...
On Sep 30, 1:37 pm, Dimitar Christoff <[email protected]> wrote: > For my money, this is not the best way forward from a UI point of view. > > Starting with full opacity text does not tell me it will go away. Fading > the text out but leaving it on onFocus makes me want to delete it myself - > cannot anticipate you will do that for me. > > Have a look at input placeholder="" implementations (via HTML5 natively > on chrome atm and the several mootools ones that add it as a progressive > enhancement to browsers yet to implement it). > > The good side to using what will soon be a common place technology / > practice is that is that users get trained to recognise and interact > with these, they expect and anticipate a certain behaviour. > > Going your own way can be offputting for elderly / less saavy users that > use the mouse to select their next box as opposed to tab > > Anyway, have fun > -- > Dimitar Christoff <[email protected]> > > blog:http://fragged.org/| twitter: @D_mitar | mobile: 0781 007 2094
