$.ready() before closing body

Question

This is not a real coding question, more of a real-world statement.

I have previously noted that DOMReady events are slow, very slow. So, I noticed while br

Answer 1

Actually, placing a function call before tag makes it pointless to use jQuery's ready(). Just put native JS-wrapper function call that contains calls of all other functions that should be called on document ready.

In general, it's a working (though somewhat littering HTML code and therefore unacceptable for perfectionists) alternative for situations when author does not need/want to use jQuery at all. In such situations though, I would prefer to use native DOMContentLoaded event handler that is supported by most of browsers including IE9+ (for IE8- we can use window.load() as an acceptable fallback).