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Code highlighting in Blogger's dynamic templates

I decided to update the style of my blog recently, and immediately fell in love with new dynamic blog templates. Navigation is easy, and the look is quite slick. But, as usual, all shiny things have downsides. Since dynamic templates fetch content via ajax, long after the main page is loaded, "conventional" ways to highlight code snippets on page load don't work (and most code highlighting libs only use this method). And, to make things worse, developers of dynamic templates haven't provided us with hooks to detect the moment of page change. Some brave souls ventured into the depths of template javascript, and some even found the place where user's code can hook to get article change event - but since it's not documented and google developers change the code constantly, this workaround tends to break every several months or so. Currently, I use simple (as in "quick&dirty") workaround - I simply insert small piece of javascript code directl