Kevin Leary is a Web User Interface Designer and Front End Developer specializing in standards compliant XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Testing page load speed with Firebug

The more I find myself using JavaScript, the more I begin to worry about the weight of my pages. With the use of jQuery, much that was tradiotionally server side can now be handled on the client side with JavaScript.

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External JavaScript on Demand with jQuery.getScript()

I find myself using JavaScript more and more often in my work. As work on a particular site grows, I find that too many external scripts begin to pile up in the <head> section of my document, eventually effecting performance. Thanks to jQuery’s $.getScript method, I’ve found an elegant solution to this problem.

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AJAX, XML and Internet Explorer

While working on the KMC Partners website I stumbled upon a cross browser issue using jQuery’s AJAX $.get() method to load and parse XML data.

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