https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40441

--- Comment #8 from Krinkle <[email protected]> 2012-10-01 02:34:32 UTC ---
Okay, simple version:

* There is an international organisation that creates standards for the
internet (e.g. they decide that <b> should turn text into bold, and that
clicking a text field should focus it for typing text etc.). This organisation
is called W3C.
* W3C has decided that a placeholder should be visible whenever the value of
the text input is empty. That means when clicking on it to put the cursor
inside, until text is entered, the placeholder will remain visible. This will
make it possible (for example) to read the placeholder text even if the search
field is auto-focussed.
* Until recently Firefox and Chrome had their own version, they have now
updated their code to match the W3C guidelines. This means that we now see the
placeholder when the field is active without text in it.

If you don't like that, please complain to Firefox or W3C and explain why. This
is not something we can or should fix. It is not in our control. This change
was not made by MediaWiki, it was made by your browser.

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