md-input does not allow typing on IE

[msegers]

• Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
  Bug
• What is the current behavior?
  I cannot type on IE (11)
• **If the current behavior is a bug,
  Focus any MD-INPUT on IE11 (probably below too but 11 is most relevant). And try to type with keyboard. Does not work.
  https://material2-app.firebaseapp.com/
  You can actually see it here.
• What is the expected behavior?
  Text appears!
• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
  Include IE 11 support seems a must have right?
• Which version of Angular and Material, and which browser and OS does this issue affect?
  Did this work in previous versions of Angular / Material?
  Please also test with the latest stable and snapshot versions.
  Angular2 Beta 14, Material Alpha 2
• Other information
  (e.g. detailed explanation, stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix)

[msegers]

To add, it also doesn't move the floating label upwards as it does on other browsers.

[msegers]

• I've done some testing to see what's up. Besides the label not moving, it seems that setting maxlength=-1 does not allow you to type on IE11, seems to work fine on chrome etc.

[sebakerckhof]

FYI: In edge you also can't type, but the floating label does work.
According to both the W3C and WhatWG definition of maxLength, the behavior in IE11/Edge is the correct one
Edit: Actually, it turns out the W3C spec does mention it needs to be a non-negative integer in order to be applied. So IE/Edge behavior is wrong.

Edit 2: I filed a bug report for this, you can find it here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/7315556/

[msegers]

Saw an issue about the label on Firefox as well. Seems to be the same thing (Label)

[arjtho]

Only it works in IE if you set maxLength property

[arjtho]

And still label does not float

[arjtho]

If input are loaded thru routes then until we click on one field does not display placeholders.

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