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		lars on Sept 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Faster than jQuery(document).ready() - Wait Until ... 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 on Sept 26, 2012 [–]

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);

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