Today I asked a question on StackOverflow on how to attach a function to the browser’s DOM ready event, in a cross-browser way, but without exporting any globals (keeping everything in an anonymous function’s closure) and without including any external file. As a result, with some help of a friendly StackOverflow user, I put together a code snippet that:
- takes a single function as argument,
- attaches that function to the DOM ready event in all browsers supported by jQuery,
- is idempotent (will never fire the given function twice),
- does not export any globals,
- compiles down to less than 590 bytes (less than 300 bytes gzipped),
- is based on the jQuery source code (I take no credit for it).
I take no credit for writing this script. If you want to use it, please include jQuery’s license comment.
Update
Here is a CoffeeScript version: