-fx-highlight-text-fill style has no effect

See http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?forumID=1000&threadID=2242849

This is not a CSS issue. The style is applied, but highlightTextFill is not used by the skin.

User also reports -fx-prompt-text-fill seems to have the same problem. The prompt text is always gray, no matter which color is set in the style