889777 - Phonebook :: Home :: Embedded text not present in search bar for Internet Explorer 8.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Participation Infrastructure :: Phonebook, defect)

Description

[sandeep.b]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 Safari/537.36



Actual results:

Opened the Mozillians home page in Internet Explorer 8 browser. Observed that the search bar did not contain the embedded text "Search for people, groups and more" as was seen in Firefox and Chrome browsers.



Expected results:

The embedded text, if present in the said browser, will be helpful in explaining what the bar does.

Comment 1

[sandeep.b]

Attachment: Screenshots for search bar

Screenshots attached:
1. Screenshot 889777.a shows the search bar in Firefox browser
2. Screenshot 889777.b shows the search bar in Internet Explorer.

Comment 2

[Julia Elman]

After doing some testing, it looks as if this bug occurs on IE9 and down. This is because input placeholder text is not supported for these versions of IE (is supported in IE10: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Input). 

We can use something like the following script to fake the placeholder text: https://github.com/ginader/HTML5-placeholder-polyfill

Comment 3

[Julia Elman]

Pull requested submitted here: https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians/pull/542

Comment 4

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians

https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians/commit/70f852587e4826b70a13a7a514e5ecd8d06c9ace
[Bug 889777] Fix placeholder text so that it displays in <=IE9.

https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians/commit/071319a3052149cb8bada8b905ef25b63d0b8f77
Merge pull request #542 from juliaelman/889777-fix-placeholder-text

[Bug 889777] Fix placeholder text so that it displays in <=IE9.

Comment 5

[Matt Brandt [:mbrandt]]

Bumping to resolve fixed - this is on stage and ready to for verification

Comment 6

[Matt Brandt [:mbrandt]]

Attachment: qa - verified on stage

QA verified on stage - the text is present in the search bar for IE 8, IE 9, and IE 10.