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Karmagination is an ultra-lightweight JavaScript framework that makes DOM manipulation and object-oriented programming easy. By having a low learning curve and extreme performance, Karmagination is ideal for both complex and simple sites. - J. Albert Bowden II

Gmail has always offered an odd mixture of lightning fast AJAX navigation and frustratingly slow load times, depending on what you're doing. The worst offender, by far, is the initial load when you first open the page - sometimes the loading bar flashes by in a second, others it chooses to sluggishly crawl without any apparent intention of ever finishing. If you find yourself seeing the latter all too often, then you're going to be quite pleased with a new Gmail Labs feature that just launched called Gmail Inbox Preview. Inbox Preview does one very basic thing: as Gmail goes through its initial boot, it shows a plaintext version of your ten most recent message subject lines. You can't open the messages or interact with them in any way, but it will let you quickly tell if you've got any new messages without having to sit through the load time. Most people on high speed internet connections probably won't even notice the feature, but for those of us who reguarlly have to check our Email... - Johnn Luevanos

It is interesting to note that it reflows the page twice for wikipedia.org and mozilla.org but not for Google. I don’t know what that means, but I’m sure it contributes to page load time. Perhaps this happens because Google doesn’t use CSS nor JS, or perhaps it is because Google doesn’t have a scrollbar, and the other two do? Now, if only someone made a Firefox extension of this! - terababy

Revision as of 01:56, 10 May 2009 Current revision Line 13: Line 13: * All major data types can be passed between the two environments. * All major data types can be passed between the two environments. * Open-source license (modified Apache 1.1). By multiple Open-Source Flash contributors. * Open-source license (modified Apache 1.1). By multiple Open-Source Flash contributors. + += SWFObject = + +[http://code.google.com/p... SWFObject] is a Javascript toolkit for embedding SWF instances (flash) into a webpage, either a page-load time, or dynamically later in response to user interaction or other events. SWFObject is becoming the defacto standard for Javascript solutions to embedding SWF. + += CheckPlayer = + +[http://checkplayer.flensed.com CheckPlayer] is a companion project to SWFObject, but provides some additional API functionality, including the ability to detect SWF loading progress, completion, and even when the ExternalInterface API is initialized. + += [[Flash-enabled...

Iframe jquery tips - Alex Henderson

Site load time and ranking correlation - Gayane Dallakyan

your girl is a real looker - Aaron Peters

Nicer asynchronous JavaScript (Jim, Paul, and I were talking about stuff like this for a long time this evening) - Bret Taylor

Yah, since the synchronization issues are usually less acute for cooperative multithreaded programs, a lot of stuff "looks" synchronous in this case with small visual indicators that execution will suspend at that call, which I like. - Bret Taylor