On Oct 3, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Adrian Sutton wrote:
On 03/10/08 20:56, "Nils Dagsson Moskopp"
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Am Freitag, den 03.10.2008, 20:41 +0100 schrieb Adrian Sutton:
<label for=”date”>Date: <input type=”text” placeholder=”1 Jan 2008”
id=”date” /></label>
Wouldn't three comboboxes be more appropriate ?
While that's a common solution it's a terribly inefficient and
frustrating
user interface. Besides, the specific examples aren't as important
as the
idea that placeholder is an excellent way to provide suggestions
and thus
distinct from the label of the field.
Exactly, that was my point as well. People have been saying that the
only places they've noticed a placeholder being used, it was
performing the job of a label, but if it were easy to use (a simple
attribute instead of lots of JavaScript hacking), I think it would be
used appropriately as a hint more often. Yes, it would also be
abused, but what else is new? If we provide a good way to do it
right, designers who care about doing it right will do it right, and
the ones who don't will continue to do whatever they want.
Obviously <input type="date"> kicks ass for this particular example.
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Andy Lyttle
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