Realm of Zod » Javascript http://blog.realmofzod.com Programming and Technology Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:59:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Dynamic paths in external javascript and stylesheets http://blog.realmofzod.com/2010/04/19/dynamic-paths-in-external-javascript-and-stylesheets/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/2010/04/19/dynamic-paths-in-external-javascript-and-stylesheets/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:46:13 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=252
Best practices  dictate that unobtrusive javascript is king these days which means that all javascript should live in external js files instead of cluttering up the html. Simple enough, however, situations arise sometimes where you need to adapt your javascript for dynamic conditions of the application, most notably, the current base directory where your application lives. If your application is small enough you can just hard code paths to images, other scripts, or internal urls however if you are anything like me, you probably shudder at the thought of hard coding any thing. Take this use case into consideration: let's say we have an external javascript file called myscript.js which houses all of our javascript for handling click events on ajax powered links throughout the site.]]> http://blog.realmofzod.com/2010/04/19/dynamic-paths-in-external-javascript-and-stylesheets/feed/ 0 jQuery.imageLoader 1.0 Released http://blog.realmofzod.com/2010/02/03/jquery-imageloader-1-0-released/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/2010/02/03/jquery-imageloader-1-0-released/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:37:16 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=222 http://blog.realmofzod.com/2010/02/03/jquery-imageloader-1-0-released/feed/ 9 Load Your Ads Last http://blog.realmofzod.com/2009/11/19/load-your-ads-las/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/2009/11/19/load-your-ads-las/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:05 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=162 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/2009/11/19/load-your-ads-las/feed/ 2 Queued, Concatenated, and Gzipped Assets with the Zend Framework http://blog.realmofzod.com/2009/11/18/queued-concatenated-and-gzipped-assets-with-the-zend-framework/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/2009/11/18/queued-concatenated-and-gzipped-assets-with-the-zend-framework/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:12:22 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=164 http://blog.realmofzod.com/2009/11/18/queued-concatenated-and-gzipped-assets-with-the-zend-framework/feed/ 2 Ajax – Too Much of a Good Thing http://blog.realmofzod.com/2009/06/23/ajax-too-much-of-a-good-thing/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/2009/06/23/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/2009/06/23/ajax-too-much-of-a-good-thing/feed/ 0 Asynchronous Image Loading with jQuery http://blog.realmofzod.com/2009/04/09/asynchronous-image-loading-with-jquery/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/2009/04/09/asynchronous-image-loading-with-jquery/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:00:10 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=61 http://blog.realmofzod.com/2009/04/09/asynchronous-image-loading-with-jquery/feed/ 27