#### Bug, feature request, or proposal: Bug #### What is the expected behavior?  #### What is the current behavior?  #### What are the steps to reproduce? http://plnkr.co/edit/79nFR1?p=preview #### What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior? Focused md-input should look the same on all occasions #### Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected? 4.0.3 / beta6 / at least Firefox & Chrome #### Is there anything else we should know? Placeholder is floating as soon as you type. But there will be no animation. Behaviour looks and feels a bit "out of place".