If you use an image for the background image of an element on a mouseOver or :hover event(for example, navigation menu which images are used), the image will not load until the first :hover event if you only apply that background-image in the CSS for the :hover state. The preloader will help you with this! It’ll load those images when the page loads and stores them in your browsers cache. So avoid delays with rollover effects. In this article, you’ll learn 4 ways to preload images with CSS or javascript technique.
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4 Ways To Preload Images With CSS or JavaScript
February 10th, 2011 
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66+ Open Source JavaScript Game Engine for Serious Developers
January 31st, 2011 
Javascript is not only welcomed by the web developer or designers, but also more and more mobile device(Such iPad, iPhone, Android etc) oriented developers, we can easily build many amazing games with HTML(5) + Javascript + CSS. Below is a list of JavaScript Game Engine for serious developers, include general, 3D, Animation, Canvas, Math, Color, Sound, WebGL etc. Hope they will be helpful for your work!
15 Very Useful Hand-Picked AJAX Tutorial
November 4th, 2009 
Ajax is a technique for handling external data through JavaScript asynchronously, without reloading the entire page. Maybe you have heard about Ajax before, or at least used an Ajax-based application for example Gmail. The use of Ajax techniques has led to an increase in interactive or dynamic interfaces on web pages. Ajax is not a technology in itself, but a group of technologies as DHTML and LAMP. Then we have collect 15 very useful toturials which hope can help you understand it quickly. Now let’s start.
28+ Useful Ajax CSS Forms You Shlould Know
October 27th, 2009 
In previous article we have introduced a big collection about javascript 6 Ajax library/framework(see The Most Complete AJAX Framework and JavaScript Libraries List(124+) ). They can help us to quickly develop web pages, but we don’t always need a whole ajax library or framework — mostly we only need a part of them. For example, only a form, input text, button etc. Form is usually used in web applcations. Now we have collected 28+ useful ajax css-based forms. Hope it can save your time.
20+ Perfact jQuery Plungins Make You Website More Attractive
October 25th, 2009 
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. By using of jQuery you can write less but do more. There are large of ready made jQuery plugins available from generous designers and developers on the web can help add stunning functionality and effects to your website. Then you have collect 20 Perfact jQuery plungins hope them can be helpful to you. Now, let’s start!
21+ beautiful Javascript and Ajax based solutions to our gallery requirements
April 8th, 2008 
Maybe you are believe that a picture is worth a thousand words, so you need a powerful gallery in order to show your excellent pictures well. Or you need to add a gallery into your blog or homepage. Javascrip or AJAX technology is a better choice since they don’t need extend plugin.
Fjax–a pretty nifty combination of flash and ajax
March 8th, 2008 In a previous article,Flex vs. Ajax — both have their pros and cons,I listed some arguements about which one is better,but,Fjax–a new “technology”,to my utter amazement,it uses an XML file to pass data to a browser — except that it uses a tiny bit of Flash, instead of the browser, to parse the XML.Though I don’t know what the relationship is with Aflax(Developed by Paul Colton,a development methodology which combines Ajax and Flash to create more dynamic web based applications) and it requires something else to be installed(Though Flash’s penetration level is good),but I think it’s a well though and clean implementation.
The Most Complete AJAX Framework and JavaScript Libraries List(124+)
February 13th, 2008 Ajax framework can help us to quickly develop web pages that can call web services and server pages through javascript without having to submit the current page.Recent Web-applications tend to use them to provide more interactivity and guarantee better functionality.There are hundreds of Ajax/JavaScript frameworks available — I spent some days to gather the most useful of them,if you know others not include in the list,don’t hesitate to leave your comment.:)