nathansmith/formalize — Issue #38: Password placeholder in IE 9 and below
Author: zinkkrysty
Created: 2011-11-11 11:00:28+00:00
State: open

The password placeholder is masked in IE 9 and below (because it's using the value attribute), therefore useless.

A possible solution is to change the type of input to "text" until it's focused, but haven't tested it and maybe gives some other issues.