Monthly Archives: July 2010

Faking Onload for Link Elements

By Zach Leatherman | Published: July 29, 2010
Updated 2011/09/27: Rejoice! This issue has now been fixed in Firefox. Or, I Am Dynamically Loaded CSS (and So Can You!) Dynamic resource loading is one of the keys to have a performance happy web application. There are generally three different criteria we must address when making a request: cross domain security policies, asynchronous/synchronous (will [...]
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ALARMd is now on Github

By Zach Leatherman | Published: July 21, 2010
In an effort to mindlessly copy what everyone else on the internet is doing keep current on the latest and greatest Source Code Management tools, I decided that it would be good practice to move my open source project ALARMd (as seen on Lifehacker) from Google Code to Github. Feel free to fork/contribute at your [...]
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Maiden Voyage of the DOM Sailbloat

By Zach Leatherman | Published: July 19, 2010
As many of you may already know, my day job includes managing a large and complex enterprise jQuery-based user interface component library. It’s used by all new web applications at the company, which boasts over an IT department of approximately 1500 people and hundreds of web applications. Needless to say, I get a fair volume [...]
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