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Bug 26194 - We should adjust the implementation advice here. Developers expect data:text/html,<input%20autofocus%20placeholder=Test> to show the placeholder and this happens in every browser except for IE
Summary: We should adjust the implementation advice here. Developers expect data:text/...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2014-06-25 10:48 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-08-29 21:27 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-06-25 10:48:58 UTC 
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
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-input-element.html

Comment:
We should adjust the implementation advice here. Developers expect
data:text/html,<input%20autofocus%20placeholder=Test> to show the placeholder
and this happens in every browser except for IE

Posted from: 178.83.154.60 by annevk@annevk.nl
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Comment 1 Anne 2014-06-25 10:49:36 UTC 
(It is removed once the value is non-empty due to typing.)
Comment 2 Anne 2014-06-25 11:12:39 UTC 
<batiste> IE implements the (or both)
<batiste> While the other ones only use the "emptiness"
Comment 3 contributor 2014-08-29 21:01:47 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8734.
Check-in comment: Make placeholder='' and autofocus='' work better together
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8733&to=8734