jquery document.ready

[payb.tc]

if these are 100% equivalent, why on earth would anyone ever use the longer version?

$(document).ready(handler)
$(handler)

i really wonder.

[captainteemo]

one waits for the page to complete loading, then do actions in the background. if you put this at the top of a page, with a slow thing, it waits for the page to finish
other fires wherever it hits (blocking, non-async) if you put this at the top of a page, it won't finish rendering until it returns

[btc_artist]

if these are 100% equivalent, why on earth would anyone ever use the longer version?

$(document).ready(handler)
$(handler)

i really wonder.

As far as I know, nobody uses the longer version.  It *is* self-documenting though, which is a plus I guess.

[payb.tc]

one waits for the page to complete loading, then do actions in the background. if you put this at the top of a page, with a slow thing, it waits for the page to finish
other fires wherever it hits (blocking, non-async) if you put this at the top of a page, it won't finish rendering until it returns

no, they are functionally identical... both only fire when the 'document' is 'ready'... one is just a shorter way of writing it, but i've seen hundreds of examples all over the web that has the longer version in it.

[btc_artist]

So the answer to your question is probably that people just copy example they see (the long version) and are oblivious to the fact that there's a more concise way to do it.