felixge / felixge/flame-explain

Grey placeholder text looks bad in Safari

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Description

# Problem

In Safari, the grey placeholder text doesn't look right. It's missing all the newlines:

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/15000/90112540-6b90df00-dd50-11ea-9072-42befcde4342.png)

This is a [known issue](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7312623/insert-line-break-inside-placeholder-attribute-of-a-textarea), and as far as I can tell Safari is actually correctly enforcing the web standard that says that placeholder texts can't have any newlines.

But obviously the web standards are stupid here, and it'd be nice to show the newlines in all browsers.

# Proposal

Figure out a way to make Safari look the same as Chrome and others.

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