On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Garrett Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Brenton Strine < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Andy Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Of course, it's still not in any way semantic. The only difference > between > > "(optional)" being displayed near the input and being displayed *within* > the > > input is one of aesthetics. The meaning of the document isn't changed > one > > iota. This leans me even more toward a CSS solution. I'll just bite the > > bullet and bring it up to the CSS WG. > > > > Are you proposing that placeholder could be a positioned object, such > as an image? Not entirely sure what you're suggesting here, but maybe? My suggestion was put forward up above - I would prefer if the placeholder text was replaced content. You set a CSS rule (haven't decided the best way to handle this yet) that suppresses the display of a label and instead uses the textual content of the label as a placeholder. Using an image as a placeholder is interesting, though. I know that Google custom search does that sometimes. However, I'm fine with leaving that to Javascript for now, as image placeholders aren't an accessibility concern like the placeholder-instead-of-label issue is. As well, it's still a minority technique compared to text placeholders. ~TJ
