Realm of Zod » html http://blog.realmofzod.com Programming and Technology Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:34:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Load Your Ads Last http://blog.realmofzod.com/load-your-ads-las/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/load-your-ads-las/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:05 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=162
Nobody likes ads but we can all agree they are a necessary component of doing business online. I recently had some experience dealing with adify, a aggregating ad platform which pipes in banners from a multitude of sources some with questionable practices in regards to loading performance. I had just launched a beatifully crafted website that employed all the tricks in the book for quick page loads and it was snappy... until we embedded the ad code. I like to load my images asynchronously and I like to execute javascript only once the document has finished loading so imagine the pain of patiently watching little animated gif spinners swirling away for as long as 6-30 seconds because the browser is choking on javascript from the banner ads in the middle of the page. Normally the solution would be to fix the javascript, but being a third party ad network, the embedded code was far beyond my control, so clearly this needed rethinking. I needed to figure out how to load the ads asynchronously as well.]]> http://blog.realmofzod.com/load-your-ads-las/feed/ 2 Ajax – Too Much of a Good Thing http://blog.realmofzod.com/ajax-too-much-of-a-good-thing/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/ajax-too-much-of-a-good-thing/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:00:19 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=83 http://blog.realmofzod.com/ajax-too-much-of-a-good-thing/feed/ 0