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DOMContentLoaded Inconsistencies (in Browsers and JavaScript Libraries)

By Zach Leatherman | Published: December 4, 2008
We all know the problem, but we may not all call it the same thing: DOMContentLoaded. Every popular JavaScript library has its own name for the DOMContentLoaded event, and they're all implemented differently. This, of course, partly due to the fact that web browsers are also inconsistent in their implementations. Here's a run-down of those inconsistencies.
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Dear IE6: Please Cache my Images.

By Zach Leatherman | Published: October 18, 2008
A few months ago, I took on a new role at Union Pacific Railroad as the lead architect for an internal project: a Union Pacific UI Library used in our IT department on all new web-based projects. Based on jQuery, it is similar to a project like jQuery UI, but it has a few more [...]
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Relative URLs including the Domain

By Zach Leatherman | Published: October 16, 2008
Just a neat little trick I saw while browsing the source code of Google Calendar. In some of their CSS files, they link to background-images using URLs that include everything but the protocol, which is something I hadn't seen before.
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Rethinking JavaScript Grids and DataTables

By Zach Leatherman | Published: April 13, 2008
In the world of front end engineering, one must consider the end-user of the interface first, and above all other things. The priorities should not start with development ease, nor external library preference. The priorities should start with the needs of the consumer of your end product. Evolution of your engineering skill is also a [...]
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