History:
1.0 initial release
1.1 added support for multiline placeholders in textareas
1.2 Allow label to wrap the input element by noah
https://github.com/ginader/HTML5-placeholder-polyfill/pull/1
1.3 New option to read placeholder to Screenreaders. Turned on by default
1.4 made placeholder more rubust to allow labels being offscreen + added minified version of the 3rd party libs
1.5 emptying the native placeholder to prevent double rendering in Browsers with partial support
1.6 optional reformat when a textarea is being resized - requires
http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-resize-plugin/
1.7 feature detection is now included in the polyfill so you can simply include it without the need for Modernizr
1.8 replacing the HTML5 Boilerplate .visuallyhidden technique with one that still allows the placeholder to be rendered
1.8.1 bugfix for implicit labels
1.9 New option "hideOnFocus" which, if set to false will mimic the behavior of mobile safari and chrome (remove label when typed instead of onfocus)
1.9.1 added reformat event on window resize
1.9.2 more flexible way to "fix" labels that are hidden using clip() thanks to grahambates:
https://github.com/ginader/HTML5-placeholder-polyfill/issues/12
2.0 new easier configuration technique and new options forceApply and AutoInit and support for setters and getters
2.0.1 changed check for empty field so a space character is no longer ignored
2.0.2 allow rerun of the placeholder() to cover generated elements - existing polyfilled placeholder will be repositioned. Fixing:
https://github.com/ginader/HTML5-placeholder-polyfill/issues/15
2.0.3 turn debugging of for production. fix
https://github.com/ginader/HTML5-placeholder-polyfill/issues/18
2.0.4 moved to grunt as build tool and restructured the project
2.0.5 added markdown conversion
2.0.6 fix for issue
https://github.com/ginader/HTML5-placeholder-polyfill/pull/23
- thanks to christiangeek
2.0.7 fix for issue
https://github.com/ginader/HTML5-placeholder-polyfill/pull/44
- thanks to randallb for the report
2.0.8 added Bower config
2.0.9 fix for issue
https://github.com/ginader/HTML5-placeholder-polyfill/pull/58
- thanks to samuelcole for the commit