Do I still need $(document).ready(function(){ })?
<p>I've been developing in javascript for a few months and I have been using <code>$(document).ready(function(){</code> at the beginning of all my scripts. I've noticed other folks don't use this in their scripts but I can't seem to get mine working without it. I'd like to keep my code cleaner, but for all my google searches I can't seem to figure out how to get rid of it. </p>

<p>I know it tells the browser to execute my script as soon as the page loads but is there something global I can set so that I don't need to explicitly tell the browser to execute each of my scripts when the page loads? Or is it a more global problem with where in my html files the scripts are located?</p>
