Take the 2-minute tour ×  Since placing javascript DOM methods
in the bottom of the html page (after <body>) is a lot faster
than using the jQuery 'ready' event, shouldnt we be forcing it
by doing:   ...after the body tag? I havent really tried this,
but it should speed up things. Or did I miss something?
share|improve this question FWIW the ASP.NET AJAX clientside
framework loads its "ready" code
(<script>Sys.Application.initialize()</script>) by injecting it
right before the closing </body> tag. –  Roatin Marth Nov 13 '09
at 22:30  3 Answers 3  up vote 5 down vote accepted
share|improve this answer  The ready event means the document
has now been parsed and the DOM is available to be manipulated.
That happens when the browser has completed its parsing, and you
can't make it happen sooner.  How do you think such a thing
would work? Would it flip a magic switch in the browser's HTML
parser that makes it run faster than it normally does? Would it
cause the computer's processor to run faster, so the browser