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How to speed up JavaScript using the DOMready event

One of the problems many JavaScript programmers meet when trying to produce their own page control is timing and event cluttering.

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Elastic and bouncing transitions in scriptaculous

Scriptaculous has a lot of transitions, but in some situations, you want to sprinkle up a dull animation, applying a different, custom transition type. Back in 2003, Robert Penner wrote the easing equations, a set of math formulas in Flash Actionscript released under the BSD license, that simulate various types of physical effects, the most [...]

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Optimize pages for search engines with dynamic CSS/javascript HTML building (how to make your own lightbox working example!)

CSS, DHTML and Javascript work really good together. In fact, I tend to use the combination to replace Flash whenever it’s appropriate (usually, most of the time!). Javascript ‘building’ is a technique where you dynamically add original nodes to your DOM, usually based on existing content. Speaking in (sort of) plain english, this means you [...]

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