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Re: help with a form please

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From: Dejan Kozina
Date: Mar 17, 2007 6:50AM

I have this bookmarked:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2005JulSep/0036.html

Does anybody know more about the current state of Braille readers?

djn

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Neither should there be. The old recommendation of setting dummy
> placeholders as initial content was ill-advised from the beginning, and
> it was made with the condition "until user agents handle empty fields
> properly". The faulty browsers that didn't cope with empty fields have
> lost all their significance years ago. Anyone using such a browser these
> days is doomed to encounter serious difficulties in the great majority
> of forms on web pages.
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