I talked before about using an object element to load scripts and styles without executing/applying them to the current document. And this is nice for preloading assets – faster and less error-prone than simple inclusion if the document or iframe. But what about preloading assets (scripts) and then executing them on the current page? Turns […]

Preloading components in advance is good for performance. There are several ways to do it. But even the cleanest solution (open up an iframe and go crazy there) comes at a price – the price of the iframe and the price of parsing and executing the preloaded CSS and JavaScript. There’s also a relatively high […]

What can your tired old page, once loaded and used and read, can do for your user? It can preload components needed by the next page, so when the users visit the next page, they have the new scripts, styles and images already in the cache. Next page loads faster and the user’s happy. On […]