This is the kind of thing that would be good (for both webdev ergonomics and end user accessibility) to have interoperability on between browsers.
Florens Verschelde @fvsch
30 Dec 2019
CSS Public Service Announcement: Browsers style placeholder text using different techniques: 1. Firefox: input's color + `opacity: 0.54` 2. WebKit/Blink: input's color, modified to be lighter When overriding ::placeholder styles, specify both color and opacity.
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Replying to @zcorpan
I guess when it was originally discussed we got into such a big argument about pseudo-element versus pseudo-class that we never really discussed the styling: lists.w3.org/Archives/Public… lists.w3.org/Archives/Public… (twice!) lists.w3.org/Archives/Public…

Dec 30, 2019 · 3:39 PM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @zcorpan
Found a few open issues: github.com/whatwg/html/issue… bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu… I thought WebKit/Blink were doing some non-CSS color modifications of the input's color, but they just set a #757575 placeholder text color. cs.chromium.org/chromium/src…
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