Re: HTML_QuickForm2: BackgroundText element

Hi Christian, On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 10:05 +0200, Christian Weiske wrote: > Hi Alexey, > > > > >> I made a custom element for QuickForm2, BackgroundText: > > >> > > >> http://demo.cweiske.de/qf2-things/demo-backgroundtext.php > > > Is that an element that would fit into the QF2 package? > > > The element is useful, but I'd prefer having it in a separate > > package, due to QuickForm 3.x experiences (e.g. hierselect was > > rewritten several times and right now needs yet another rewrite: > > http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16603) > > Ok. Shall every single additional element be a separate package? That > could give us some clutter, but maybe that's ok. > > Until I propose it, here is the code: > http://github.com/cweiske/HTML_QuickForm2_BackgroundText > > I am also working on a captcha element: > http://github.com/cweiske/HTML_QuickForm2_Captcha > > > As for the changes you proposed in pear-general, I hope I'll be able > > to implement them in the near future. > Great. May I assist with patches? For which features? > FWIW, I just committed similar feature to the Mozilla Website: http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc?revision=67129&view=revision It's a bit more generic and has the advantage of HTML5 support and not submitting the placeholder text if no text is entered. Feel free to steal bits from it! Cheers, Mike