On Tuesday 20 August 2013, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: > Hi, > > Once my patch for https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120049 is landed, > Mac port will no longer return false in shouldShowPlaceholderWhenFocused. > > Mac, Windows, and EFL all return true in this function. > > Are Qt and GTK+ (and other) ports intentionally returning false > in shouldShowPlaceholderWhenFocused? Or is this just an oversight due to > the fact the default implementation returned false? > I think in our case the method is simply not implemented. Honestly even after investigating it I am still not sure exactly what it does. What is a placeholder in the context of a text-edit, and why should it be visible when focused,; is it not visible when not focused, or only visible when not focused?
Sometimes I think a little more method documentation in WebCore would be a good idea. Regards `Allan _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev

