LABjs: why not just concat?

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, [...]

Why DOM-ready still sucks

For those of you who are familiar with JavaScript libraries, you are probably at least a little bit aware that there is an “event” that occurs during the loading of a page which abstractly represents the point in time in which the browser has fully processed the structure (aka, the “DOM”) of the HTML document [...]

Loading JavaScript: Even a caveman can do it

I recently gave a talk about JavaScript Loading at JSConf.EU in Berlin. Video/audio of the talk will be made available online eventually, and I will link to it here once that happens. But, in fact, I will be re-presenting this same talk at the November meeting of Austin.Javascript (@AustinJS), on Tues Nov 17th, at 7:30pm. [...]

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