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If you're reading this, you're probably looking for a simple way to improve user experience (UX) on your website or project by adding helpful hints to input fields and textareas. I was too! So, I put together this little plugin that takes the title attribute from an input and sticks it into the field itself. It renders the hint text untouchable but intact as a user focuses on the field.

After learning of _why the lucky stiff's vaporization into the cyber-ether - which was quite the Poignant move - I had to pay my homage to this great eccentric of web development. I had only briefly had the pleasure of consuming his works of literary madness before his untimely disappearance. I, as a fledgling developer who hand codes html for his blog posts, have a great admiration for people who contribute to our craft as much as he did, in the way that he did.

So, why _why? According to him it's just a middle name, no first name, no last name, just a long middle name.

I'm currently reading his book "_why's Poignant Guide to Ruby" and I'm loving it so far. Once I'm done I'll be updating this post with a review on it. For now, here's my copy of his PDF, which has become somewhat of a collector's item, now that he took down all of his sites.

Oh, _why, And art thou gone so soon? And is thy loving gentle spirit fled? -John Harris

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