Contributing to Mozilla projects can be done in many ways. This week, a Webcompat bug about behavior differences in between browsers led me to propose a patch on Firefox and get it accepted. I learned a couple of things along the way. That might be useful for others.

The Webcompat Bug - Search Placeholder On Mobile Sites

It started with a difference of behavior in between Chrome and Firefox on Android devices for Nikkei Web site reported by kudodo from Mozilla Japan. I looked at the bug and checked the differences in Firefox 40 (Gecko 40) and Opera 30 (Blink/Chrome 43).

Indeed the placeholder text appears in Gecko and not in Blink.

span> id="searchBlank" action="" method="get">
    
span> id="searchBox" placeholder="

http://www.otsukare.info/2015/06/12/patch-this