"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo
Boring. Tedious. Mindless. Why do web users' eyes glaze over and minds go numb when presented with an interactive form online? This author believes at least part of the problem lies with the information architect who arranged the form fields and — to a lesser degree — with the front-end developer who coded it.
Admittedly, forms aren't sexy. But if you're a web developer (and chances are, if you're reading this, you are) then odds are at some point in your career you were asked to mark up and style some sort of form. If you dreaded coding that form, imagine the amount of dread you aided in creating in your user. That ends now.
You're mature and seeking new challenges worthy of that maturity. And if we can stop worrying and learn to love the form, the odds are better that our audiences will actually enjoy them too.
In this chapter we'll look at real-life examples of how HTML5 is used for interactive forms, including displaying placeholder...