Hover has a nice border right around the text, while focus state adds extra 30px padding on the right.

Focused input is the same size as the hover border.
@cyu06 added that space for IE, I think. perhaps he can weigh in on why (if) it's necessary?
Github is not letting me upload the animated gif, but internally the issue was 1378.
Before IE fix:

After IE fix:

Is the buffer thing something we can do for IE only?