[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);