When programming desktop applications I’ve always been a supporter of lazy loading of objects but I’ve never given this much thought when creating websites. Until now.

There’s an ancient fable that tells of a frog that falls into a pail of milk. Unable to scramble out, the creature trashes around, seemingly drowning. Eventually however, his frantic struggles turn the milk into butter – and he hops away. Until now, that fable has been a good metaphor of my struggle with the seven headed beast called JavaScript. I’ve written my lines of code, gotten inane script errors from IE, tried, failed and tried again.