Placeholder text missing on focused fields in IE

[ryanfeeley]

Current (in IE, unsure, witnessed in usertesting.com video)

Proposed (and current in Firefox)

[seanmonstar]

IE didn't get placeholder support until version 10. So 8 and 9 won't have
one.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Input
On Apr 8, 2014 3:06 PM, "Ryan Feeley" [email protected] wrote:

Current (in IE, unsure, witnessed in usertesting.com video)

[image: missing-email-hint]https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/68213/2649892/d0eaaff0-bf68-11e3-82f7-2065c8c889e0.png

Proposed (and current in Firefox)
[image: showing-email-hint]https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/68213/2649899/e78356cc-bf68-11e3-81fe-6b6e6cdc8429.png

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[callahad]

Marking as good first bug. We should have some sort of fallback for placeholder text in IE 8 and 9. MDN suggests http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/cross-browser-html5-placeholder-text

Otherwise, Persona's not totally intelligible: "Sign into example.com with..." "with what?"

[jaredhirsch]

if anyone wants this as a good first bug, ping me here and I'll provide neckbeard-level guidance on fixing without adding big libraries to the codebase

[pa5tabear]

Is this bug still an issue? I'm curious if it's something I'd be able to help solve. I haven't contributed to open source before and am looking for somewhere to start.

[jleclanche]

Would it be reasonable to add a label "Email address:" which is only visible on ie9-? It sounds easier and incidentally would probably be more appropriate for eg. tts readers.

[callahad]

Looks like this polyfill might be a good place to start: https://github.com/UmbraEngineering/Placeholder

I'm inclined to favor polyfills over hiding / showing text so that we don't have to special-case our layouts on IE8/9.

[timmarinin]

@6a68 I want to jump in, if it's still an issue and nobody tackles it.
@pa5tabear, how is it going?

[sumitbinnani]

@callahad @6a68 @pa5tabear @marinintim
Is anyone working on it? If not, I would like to contribute :-)

[shane-tomlinson]

Hi @sumitbinnani - We have largely wound down development of Persona in favor of Firefox Accounts. I would be happy to mentor you through a bug over there.

[sumitbinnani]

@shane-tomlinson Sure! I would be happy to contribute. Will quickly go through the Firefox Project meanwhile.