https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33274

--- Comment #8 from Krinkle <[email protected]> 2012-01-01 15:48:01 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> You can use "input[type=text], input:not([type])" to find text inputs even if
> the type attribute is omitted.  This doesn't work in IE7 or IE8, though, which
> input[type=text] does, and that's 25% of Wikimedia's traffic
> <http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2011-10/SquidReportClients.htm>.
>  Both forms do work in IE9 and higher, and any interesting version of any 
> other
> browser.
> 
> Given IE's plummeting market share (<35% on Wikimedia!), I don't think we need
> to re-add the attributes for this use-case.  But if people do want to, it 
> would
> be simple enough to change the class so that they're always present instead of
> never present.

I disagree, this makes stylesheets more unreadable and ugly. Leaving parts out
of the HTML just to save a little bit of bandwidth, only to make styling the
parts counter intuitive.

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