As I understand $(document).ready() is more or less just an enclosure to make sure the DOM is correcly available for use with jQuery. As it seems this makes the use of any on... event handler obsolete since any event can be bound in the $(document).ready() enclosure. Is that right or is there more behind it?
What happens if I still use e.g. onclick somewhere in the page possibly when this event is already bound to a function in the enclosure? Should this be avoided? What are the implications? So far I assumed the DOM was ready when I used Javascript code anywhere in a page. Was that wrong or why needs jQuery $ (document).ready()? $(function() is mentioned as a shorthand for $(document).ready(), does this mean I could use whatever syntax I like more? jQuery(function($) is mentioned as writing failsafe jQuery code yet I don't understand what's the difference to the above choices. Does anybody know? O. Wyss
