Six out of the six mentioned sites are never visited by me.<br><br>Though I
know I am not representative in these numbers, I believe I recently saw tests about "defer" currently having different
implementation across browser and different behavior depending on the script insertion point and again depending on the browser.<br><br>Should we really trust defer="" (at least in most recent browsers) ?<br>Where is it more reliable cross-browser in the head or the body section ?<br>
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Diego Perini<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Ian Hickson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch">ian@hixie.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Steve Souders wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > Given that it is possible to do this from script, how common is it for<br>
> > people to do it from script? If it's very common, that would be a good<br>
> > data point encouraging us to do this sooner rather than later.<br>
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> 6 of the top 10 US web sites load scripts after the load event: eBay,<br>
> Facebook, Bing, MSN.com, MySpace, and Yahoo.<br>
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Do we know why they do this rather than use defer="", and whether<br>
defer="" would handle their use casess?<br>
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