"input.placeholder" is merely a notation; notation does not infer any semantics by itself. Chris
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garrett Smith Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:36 PM To: Nils Dagsson Moskopp Cc: whatwg Subject: Re: [whatwg] Placeholder option for text input boxes On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 30.09.2008, 11:49 -0700 schrieb Garrett Smith: >> Are there any arguments against a |placeholder| property on INPUT? > Missing semantics ? It is a purely presentational attribute. > The semantics would be simple property access: input.placeholder - as demonstrated in the example I posted up. Garrett
