Realm of Zod » jquery 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 jQuery.imageLoader 1.0 Released http://blog.realmofzod.com/jquery-imageloader-1-0-released/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/jquery-imageloader-1-0-released/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:37:16 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=222
A while ago I wrote an article on how to dynamically load images using jquery. This has turned out to be one of my most popular posts and I got a lot of feedback on it. As a follow-up I decided to package it up as a real-life jquery plugin and release it into the [...]]]> http://blog.realmofzod.com/jquery-imageloader-1-0-released/feed/ 12 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 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 eROI releases Moonit into the wild http://blog.realmofzod.com/eroi-releases-moonit-into-the-wild/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/eroi-releases-moonit-into-the-wild/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:20:41 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=130 http://blog.realmofzod.com/eroi-releases-moonit-into-the-wild/feed/ 2 Asynchronous Image Loading with jQuery http://blog.realmofzod.com/asynchronous-image-loading-with-jquery/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/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/asynchronous-image-loading-with-jquery/feed/ 29