By Harry Roberts
Harry Roberts is an independent consultant web performance engineer. He helps companies of all shapes and sizes find and fix site speed issues.
Written by Harry Roberts on CSS Wizardry.
My good friend, ex-colleague and all round awesome dude Dan Bentley has made a great little jQuery placeholder plugin which polyfills older browsers that don’t support the new HTML5 form attribute placeholder
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Link: https://github.com/danbentley/placeholder
Now I’ll readily admit that Dan has done 99% of the work here, but it has been something of a joint project in that:
I actually made him build it cos he’s amazing at JS and I needed it.
I’ve added a tiny, tiny bit of CSS/UI behaviour.
There’s my 1%.
Anyway, follow the project on GitHub, follow Dan on Twitter and GitHub and let us know if you use it!
Harry Roberts is an independent consultant web performance engineer. He helps companies of all shapes and sizes find and fix site speed issues.
Hi there, I’m Harry Roberts. I am an award-winning Consultant Web Performance Engineer, designer, developer, writer, and speaker from the UK. I write, Tweet, speak, and share code about measuring and improving site-speed. You should hire me.
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I am available for hire to consult, advise, and develop with passionate product teams across the globe.
I specialise in large, product-based projects where performance, scalability, and maintainability are paramount.