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@@ -35,4 +35,22 @@ The patch below adds a label for the field to improve usability:
      <input type="hidden" name="do" value="hyperestraier" />
      </div>
 
-[[wishlist]]
+> That's both nasty javascript and fails if javascript is disabled. :-)
+> What I'd really like is a proper search label that appears above the
+> input box. There is free whitespace there, except for pages with very
+> long titles. Would someone like to figure out the CSS to make that
+> happen?
+> 
+> The tricky thing is that the actual html for the form needs to
+> still come after the page title, not before it. Because the first thing
+> a non-css browser should show is the page title. But the only way I know
+> to get it to appear higher up is to put it first, or to use Evil absolute
+> positioning. (CSS sucks.) --[[Joey]]
+
+> Update: html5 allows just adding `placeholder="Search"` to the input
+> element. already works in eg, chromium. However, ikiwiki does not use
+> html5 yet. --[[Joey]] 
+
+>> [[Done]], placeholder added, in html5 mode only.
+
+[[!tag wishlist bugs/html5_support]]