14567 2011-10-26 12:02:46 +0000 Safari on OSX Lion placeholder text doesn't disappear on focus. This is done intentionally http://webk.it/53740 and Chromium guys seems like to do the same. Could the spec change to allow so that placeholder text disappears when users start input? 2012-07-18 18:42:32 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-placeholder-attribute P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 58992 0 contributor 2011-10-26 12:02:46 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-input-element-attributes.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-placeholder-attribute Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-placeholder-attribute Comment: Safari on OSX Lion placeholder text doesn't disappear on focus. This is done intentionally http://webk.it/53740 and Chromium guys seems like to do the same. Could the spec change to allow so that placeholder text disappears when users start input? Posted from: 207.46.55.254 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.918.0 Safari/535.7 59165 1 ian 2011-10-28 23:11:11 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. 59166 2 contributor 2011-10-28 23:12:17 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r6782. Check-in comment: loosen implementation requirements around placeholder=''. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6781&to=6782