Placeholder in a sentence as a noun

In their place, we load placeholder Facebook buttons.

Since this is Hacker News I think you can treat `$` as a placeholder variable for any word you want

Sasss new placeholder syntax is pretty great, isnt it?You say: "I haven't taken a look at it yet, what do you like about it?

Yeah, that example is a placeholder; we plan on replacing it with something awesome.

" section: I rarely, if ever, see that on shutdown/acquisition placeholder pages and always wished more companies would do that.

* The label's text should be something more like: "Domain name:", especially since you already give an example in the text field with its placeholder.

Whether it was an inaccurate placeholder image, or a justinsomnia QR code, it had to be obvious it was not the final art.

The system probably didn't have the lorem ipsum placeholder text in its dictionary for all languages, so just mapped to whatever its algorithms could guess.

Just a small accessibility thing: having inputs with placeholder text is great, but screenreaders have not caught up with the times and you should still use a corresponding tag.

In addition to the usability issues the article mentions for sighted users, using placeholder without labels leaves screen reader users without any clue what the input is for.

If you still like the idea of buttons, but don't want to give up using the vendor-supplied buttons themselves, you can use the "two clicks for more privacy" jQuery plugin[0], which only loads the actual button when the user enables it by clicking a greyed-out placeholder.

Two cases specifically come to mind:- Apple rejected an app for not putting in battery usage warnings when the app made use of background location- Apple rejected an app for including placeholder artwork for in-game achievementsIn the cases where I felt I was right, I have almost always been able to argue my point with the reviewer and was allowed through.

Placeholder definitions

noun

a person authorized to act for another

See also: proxy procurator

noun

a symbol in a logical or mathematical expression that can be replaced by the name of any member of specified set