modisposition

Have you never been in troubles with frozen GIFs or unresponsive HTML? Sometimes JavaScript could be used to perform really stressful task and a loop, a for in, or an each, could not be fast enough to make your DOM responsive. What we need in this case is simply a closure to make sure references are consistent and our job will end up in the correct order. This is a probably silly but I hope interesting function to make the DOM and generally the page more responsive: Time = { setTimeout:function(Stack, delay){ var self = this; if(!delay) delay = 1; if(!(Stack instanceof Array)) Stack = [Stack]; setTimeout(function(){ Stack.shift().call(self); if(0 setTimeout(arguments.callee, delay); }, delay); } }; We can call this functon in different ways, stating from the demo: Time.setTimeout([ function(){ alert("Hello"); }, function(){ alert("Di...

After a couple of instant and consecutive releases, I ended up with a plug-in that fits minified into 240 bytes :) Here is the official plug-in page , while this is the example page and this is the summary: ;jQuery.fn.extend({ // Andrea Giammarchi - Mit Style Licence - V0.2 If:function(fn){ var __If__ = this.__If__ || this, $ = __If__.filter(fn); $.__If__ = __If__.filter(function(){return !~$.index(this)}); return $; }, Else:function(){ return this.__If__; }, Do:jQuery.fn.each }); jQuery.fn.ElseIf = jQuery.fn.If;