necolas

/*
 * Updated to use the function-based method described in http://www.phpied.com/social-button-bffs/
 * Better handling of scripts without supplied ids.
 *
 * N.B. Be sure to include Google Analytics's _gaq and Facebook's fbAsyncInit prior to this function.
 */

(function(doc, script) {
    var js, 
        fjs = doc.getElementsByTagName(script)[0],

jlong

var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";

parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port;     // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search;   // => "?search=test"
parser.hash;     // => "#hash"
parser.host;     // => "example.com:3000"

cowboy

This is now an actual repo:

https://github.com/cowboy/jquery-tiny-pubsub

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