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These are in Firefox 51, which shipped on release channel today. The pseudo-element was previously supported with a prefix.
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:placeholder-shown is a pseudo-class matching inputs showing their placeholder
::placeholder is a pseudo-element matching the placeholder
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Firefox 51 (today!) supports ::placeholder & :placeholder-shown to style <input placeholder> developer.mozilla.org/en-US/… developer.mozilla.org/en-US/…
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I think the thread argues that the PRC wants to be that replacement. But it faces some obstacles as well (language, freedom)...
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But the ruling that devolved assemblies don't have to consent probably removed the last serious chance that it won't happen.
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Hiring freezes have “little effect on Federal employment levels” ... “disrupted agency operations, and in some cases, increased costs” -GAO
Donald Trump halts hiring of federal workers and freezes pay raises wapo.st/2jJL34u
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Maybe they're ahead of the curve? Isn't he going to have to be prime minister for a bit again, in a little over three years? 😏
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They're both examples of GDP not representing the thing we actually want to measure. 4/4 /cc @samknight1 @tdfischer_
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Work to replace things that didn't need replacing isn't inherently useful, just like status symbols for the rich aren't. 3/N
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GDP is important because economic production makes things that are useful to people. GDP is a decent approximation of that. 2/N
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While destructive protest is sometimes appropriate, "new windows add to GDP" is a bad argument. 1/N
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The Republican party controls all branches of government, and wants to revert much of the welfare state and civil rights.
If you want that to be usable, you need to publish the public key, not just its fingerprint. pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=ge… doesn't show it
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It forces reflow if the layout is dirty, as a result of a prior change (e.g., to DOM, to CSS property requiring layout)
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It was also in (& motivated by) w3.org/TR/2008/CR-css3-marqu… , which was dropped when pre-smartphone mobile Web went away
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