What I have to talk about here is not going to be earth shattering, but it is a technique that has proved useful in a few different sites and scenarios for me. In fact, I regularly get questions regarding advanced use cases for LABjs (a parallel JavaScript loader), and invariably it comes back to something [...]
If you run a website but you’re not aware of Google’s free Webmaster Tools, you need to get in the loop! These tools allow you to analyze a number of important aspects of how your site is viewed/analyzed by Google’s search engine index.
Yet, with all the power and insight these tools give, it still [...]
Last week, I asserted that DOM-ready detection sucks because there’s a chicken-and-the-egg problem where some frameworks (like jQuery 1.3.2 and before) that do DOM-ready detection have trouble detecting the “event” if the framework is loaded dynamically after DOM-ready has already occurred.
I stand by that assertion, especially now that you’ve seen the launch of LABjs 1.0, [...]
This is a quickie how-to post to help address a couple little gotchas you may run into when implementing LABjs onto your site.
Consider standard page code like this:
<script src=”framework.js”></script>
<script src=”myscript.js”></script>
<script>
myscript.init();
</script>
<script>
framework.init();
framework.doSomething();
</script>
In this example, “myscript.init” is a function that is defined in “myscript.js”, and “framework.init” and “framework.doSomething” are both defined inside [...]
Update
[8/12/2010: I've posted a performance benchmark test to try and gather some numbers from the crowd-at-large on how single large concat'd files perform compared to chunking that big file into a couple of smaller files to download in parallel. I encourage you to go right now and click each of the buttons a few times, [...]
What, you mean to tell me you’re not already loading your scripts with the new hot thing, LABjs?
Just kidding, you’re probably just now starting to hear about it. But let me tell you, it is the next big thing. I mean, when was the last time someone found a way to completely revamp the plain [...]
