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

Martin Robinson mrobinson at webkit.org
Tue Aug 20 10:41:09 PDT 2013


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
> 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 just confirmed that the native GTK+ behavior is for placeholder text
to disappear when a text entry is focused. I believe for GTK+ this
method should return false.

--Martin


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