onChange on text input with placeholder fires without modifications in Internet Explorer

[edmellum]

Using IE 11 if one has a textarea component with a placeholder attribute and an onInput handler, the onInput handler will be called when clicking the textarea without typing anything in it, just clicking it. This seems to also happen when changing the placeholder. It looks to be a known issue that Microsoft is unwilling to fix.

I've previously made an issue on React to fix the same thing, which got fixed by this PR.

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[evancz]

None of the links provided describe why this can become a problem in practice, so with the current information, it seems like a relatively harmless bug. It is also one that appears to be addressed in future releases of IE.

So given my current understanding, I do not think it makes sense to add special cases to this library. Having a bunch of code to normalize browser behavior can get out of hand, and this seems like a relatively weak reason to start doing it.