The NextAction date has arrived: 2018-03-28

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The placeholder text is the text visible in the textfield when there is no text. For example, without UI Refresh, focus omnibox and remove the URL, then type one symbol, than hit backspace. "Search or type URL" placeholder text will appear.

Before UI Refresh, we had to support a corner case of iPad NTP. On iPad NTP, we were showing both the omnibox textfield and the fakebox. It was visually unpleasing to have the placeholder text twice, so we had special logic to not show the placeholder text on iPad NTP.

In UI Refresh, placeholder text can only be seen in edit state; in steady state on NTP nothing is visible without any special placeholder text handling. Therefore, that custom logic is not necessary anymore. 

The NextAction date has arrived: 2018-05-23

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/de7475c004e950176afc687deaf3aa907decbb56

commit de7475c004e950176afc687deaf3aa907decbb56
Author: stkhapugin@chromium.org <stkhapugin@chromium.org>
Date: Wed May 23 12:13:09 2018

Add placeholder text to UI Refresh omnibox.

Adds placeholder text to the omnibox.

Bug:  821814 
Cq-Include-Trybots: luci.chromium.try:ios-simulator-full-configs;master.tryserver.chromium.mac:ios-simulator-cronet;master.tryserver.chromium.mac:ios-simulator-full-configs
Change-Id: I48efe7c94afd4ed929b2020f8c68e4031376fea8
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1064411
Commit-Queue: Stepan Khapugin <stkhapugin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Rohit Rao <rohitrao@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#561042}
[modify] https://crrev.com/de7475c004e950176afc687deaf3aa907decbb56/ios/chrome/browser/ui/omnibox/omnibox_view_controller.mm

Issue 845863 has been merged into this issue.