1 measure page rendering time

my i know what u used to mesure the time taken?

posted at 05:07 am on February 05, 2008 by thirukumaran kubendran

2 jQuery as another option?

Could many of the concepts discussed be implemented using jQuery as well?

posted at 06:02 am on February 05, 2008 by Jacob Boomgaarden

3 Typo in the article's code

There’s a missing closing <code> tag immediately above the heading “All together now”, which makes the last half of the article pretty hard to read.

In a more legitimate comment, I’d also be interested to see Offspring ported to something like jQuery or (my personal preference) Mootools.

posted at 06:43 am on February 05, 2008 by Ian Beck

5 On Safari and do-it-all libraries, respectively

Fantastic work. Well done. Just one note—it is my understanding and experience that Safari does not implement last-child.

@ Jacob Boomgaarden : Yes, jQuery could certainly do this. However, many developers don’t want and many projects don’t need the overhead of that type of library. Offspring seems to be about doing one thing and doing it well.

posted at 07:00 am on February 05, 2008 by Ben Spaulding

6 Another one on Safari

Ben is right about Safari not supporting the last-child selector.

posted at 07:15 am on February 05, 2008 by Kari Pätilä

8 Using jQuery

On mid-to-large projects, where using a complete library is needed, such a script would be useless.

And using jQuery for example, would yield much more flexible results, as its CSS selectors are very complete.

I am, by no means, trying to flame here, but i really don’t see the point of a js library that does trivial things.

Wouldn’t it be better to simply use pure js to accomplish this? I mean, if you only need the first-child of the navigation, its much faster to do:

var nav-items = document.getElementById(‘nav’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’); nav-items⁰.class = ‘first-child’;

posted at 09:26 am on February 05, 2008 by Andrei Eftimie

9 Untitled

Might be worth having another look at Dean Edwards’ ie7 (and now ie8) script. He’s done some re-writing, and I believe it performs a bit better now.

Of course, Offspring and ie7/8 solve different problems, albeit with some overlap.

posted at 09:56 am on February 05, 2008 by Paul Waite

10 Untitled

Unfortunately Opera also does not support the CSS 3 selector :last-child so it only works in Mozilla based browers.

posted at 10:24 am on February 05, 2008 by Fonts K