On 2/18/10 5:21 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
That doesn't seem like a horrible problem to me. Most people don't set color on inputs
I just checked that claim on a few sites (the first ones that came to mind). Most of these are search fields; the rest are login fields.
These set input colors: bing.com (but doesn't set background) w3.org These do not: google.com amazon.com (but does set the background(!)) consumerreports.org bugzilla.mozilla.org So all I can conclude is that maybe you're right and maybe not....
and when they do, it's at least guaranteed that the color is *usable* for placeholder, even if it's not ideal.
Right; it might well make it look like the placeholder is actual text in the field.
-Bois
