Why not write your own directive for ng-placeholder? Something simple like this should work. You can call it in your html like this
<input ng-placeholder='test'>
Where test is a scope variable in the current controller.
.directive('ngPlaceholder', function($document) {
return {
restrict: 'A',
scope: {
placeholder: '=ngPlaceholder'
},
link: function(scope, elem, attr) {
scope.$watch('placeholder',function() {
elem[0].placeholder = scope.placeholder;
});
}
}
});