On Oct 1, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Aaron Boodman wrote:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Kristof Zelechovski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Please. This thread is not abort how to write JavaScript code in
general.
It is about how to write the feature detection code. This kind of
code
should be especially robust and relying on deprecated features does
not make
it more so.
Ok, let's separate out the 'how people should program' part from the
'what we will support part'. My opinion is that input.placeholder
should be supported, because it is consistent with how everything else
works.
I don't think that most web developers even know that accessing
attributes as properties is deprecated, and would be surprised that
setting input.placeholder does nothing.
We don't have a placeholder property in the interface for HTML <input>
elements, but this is due to oversight and lack of subsequent demand.
It was not meant to be a principled stand on the merits of DOM
attributes. Personally I think using getAttribute and setAttribute for
everything is a painful and error-prone coding style.
Regards,
Maciej
