[webkit-dev] Are Qt and GTK+ intentionally returning false in shouldShowPlaceholderWhenFocused?

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Tuesday 20 August 2013, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Once my patch for https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120049 is landed,
> Mac port will no longer return false in shouldShowPlaceholderWhenFocused.
> 
> Mac, Windows, and EFL all return true in this function.
> 
> Are Qt and GTK+ (and other) ports intentionally returning false
> in shouldShowPlaceholderWhenFocused?  Or is this just an oversight due to
> the fact the default implementation returned false?
> 
I think in our case the method is simply not implemented. Honestly even after 
investigating it I am still not sure exactly what it does. What is a 
placeholder in the context of a text-edit, and why should it be visible when 
focused,; is it not visible when not focused, or only visible when not 
focused?

Sometimes I think a little more method documentation in WebCore would be a 
good idea.

Regards
`Allan