Skyrocket.be

If you are tired of waiting for your whole page to load including images, flash, ads and movies before your javascript executes? Well then you are someone like me.

The YUI library we already had the YAHOO.util.Event.onAvailable() event but the people who prefer to use Prototype were left a little bit in the dark … untill now.

Dan at Vivabit created the DOM Ready extension for the Prototype framework which allows you to start executing code when the DOM is ready and all elements are available, leaving the images and other element loading in the background. Very nice work and something i’ve been waiting for a long time!

Edit: Apparently vivabit doesn’t offer the file for download anymore, you can find it here if you are still interested: http://www.skyrocket.be/download/prototype.domReady.js

I’m switching hosts, there’s a slight possibility you’ll find the site offline, if anything is out of place or doesn’t work nomore please contact me using the contact form. Thanks!

Sitepoint has recently teamed up with Ektron to have their members participate in an online survey about webdevelopment in it’s broadest meaning. The results are in, processed and now made available in PDF at the sitepoint website. If you own or run a webdesign/development business or if you work at one this is a very interesting read.

Wiigames.be

A new blog started by me mainly to experiment some with various new techniques and web API’s. The site will be regulary updated though so if you are in game consoles and want to step right up with the next revolution in console gaming this is a site you want to bookmark. Oh yea … it’s dutch too so that’ll probably rule out you english speakers

Pink for october is like CSS naked day but for a good cause. In this case Matthew Oliphant at Usabilityworks is trying convince thousands of sites to change their designs to incorporate the colour pink and bring notice for National Breast Cancer Awareness month. Great initiative! If I find the time i’m in!