[mmuro]

.ready() is actually pretty smart and a lot faster than most people give it credit for.

[pablasso]

care to elaborate a little bit?

[mmuro]

Here's a good summary of what's great about .ready(): http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Introducing_$%28document%29...

Basically, this is what makes it so great: Everything that you stick inside its brackets is ready to go at the earliest possible moment — as soon as the DOM is registered by the browser.

Waiting on the window is actually slower than waiting on the DOM.

[lars]

I don't know that it's all that smart. It uses the DOMReady event in all modern browsers, and uses a load of tricks to get the same behaviour in older browsers. It will never fire before the DOM is ready, like the function in the article does.

[mmuro]

If you don't want to wait for the DOMReady event, you can always write it like so:

(function($) { // $() will work as an alias for jQuery() inside of this function })(jQuery);