While virtually every site in existence trumpets using the jQuery DOM- ready shortcut as an absolute must, I've come across situations which I feel frustrate the user, particularly when using jQuery to create a navigational element.
I often work on sites which are going to have a lot of external content (ads, feeds, analytics), and if even one of them is sluggish to load, none of my interactive elements are responsive for that time. There seem to be three options: 1] liveQuery (disadvantage: overhead) 2] popping a loading message over the whole page (disadvantage: ridiculous) 3] nesting an image inside the portion of the DOM we need, and using an onLoad event (disadvantage: poor semantics). Anyone else come across any novel ways around this seemingly under- discussed issue?
