paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

eric-hu

-- Adapted from these sources:
-- http://peterdowns.com/posts/open-iterm-finder-service.html
-- https://gist.github.com/cowboy/905546
-- 
-- Modified to work with files as well, cd-ing to their container folder
on run {input, parameters}
  tell application "Finder"
		set my_file to first item of input
		set filetype to (kind of (info for my_file))
		-- Treats OS X applications as files.  To treat them as folders, integrate this SO answer: