Zakas’s delayed script execution proposal
Nicholas Zakas has revised his proposal for a deferred JavaScript execution attribute. Previously his proposal called for a noexecute attribute, but this has been revised to be a preload attribute.
His proposal is motivated by the lack of any built-in attributes that allow this same behavior. The defer attribute simply [...]

isotope
isotope is a jQuery plugin to create some pretty crazy dynamic layouts. If you resize any of the pages in the demo, you can view the page elements not only rearrange, but do so with smooth transition animations.
Isotope has various filtering and sorting functions for rearranging all the components on the page, including the [...]

best thing to do when a girlfriend says it over –
Better late than never
It’s been another one of those weeks… but in any case, here’s some links to keep you busy! Here’s the things I want to highlight for this week:

The performance of feature detection
Alex Russell from the Google Chrome team has ignited a debate about the performance cost of JavaScript feature detection, a very popular technique used in everything from Modernizr and has.js to YUI3, which loads JavaScript polyfills when needed (for instance, loading JSON in browsers with no native JSON support).
Alex’s first post [...]