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Wednesday, 26th September 2007

DOMContentLoaded for IE, Safari, everything, without document.write. Stuart has taken Hedger’s recent IE technique, combined it with the others and compressed it in to a short-as-possible code snippet that you can paste in to your scripts without having to include the whole of jQuery/YUI/Dojo/Prototype.

# 12:19 pm / documentwrite, domscripting, ie, javascript, ondomready, safari, stuart-langridge, unobtrusive-javascript

I have another technique [...] that I'll be switching jQuery to. If you attempt to insert into the document.body before the document is fully loaded, an exception is thrown. I take advantage of that to determine when the document is fully loaded.

John Resig

# 12:21 pm / domcontentloaded, ie, javascript, jquery, unobtrusive-javascript

Announcing the Dopplr 100. Similar to how Facebook used to only allow college e-mail addresses, Dopplr is now open to holders of e-mail accounts from 100 large corporations. The blog release doesn’t specify if each corporation gets its own special “group” within the application; that would be a neat touch.

# 4:34 pm / dopplr, email, facebook, invitations

djangogigs.com—from idea to release in 6 hours. Now that’s what I call rapid development.

# 4:53 pm / django, django-gigs, rapiddevelopment