ckone on "[Plugin: Contact Form 7] Placeholder (watermark) not visible under older browser"

I have been getting notes from users of my website that placeholder or aka watermark is not showing on IE8, Windows XP.

I know, I know...use other browsers or update etc.

However, users coming to my site cannot do those at the moment. I was wondering if there's a fix for this? I cannot say if previous versions of Contact Form 7 worked...but at least 3.5.1 and 3.5.2 are not working.

FF works
Chrome works
IE 10 works
IE 9 did not test yet
IE 8 does not work

Thanks for any tips and tricks!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/