[whatwg] Apply script.defer to internal scripts
Matthias Bauer
moeffju at moeffju.net
Thu Mar 29 03:58:13 PDT 2007
On 29.03.2007 11:33 Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:30:36 +0200, Gareth Hay <gazhay at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does it not follow that to be "more consistent, logical, better style,
>> whatever." you should wrap your code in a function that is called
onload?
>>
>> Isn't that what onload is for? being triggered after the page has
loaded?
>
> That load event dispatched on the <body> element also waits for all
> external scripts and images to be loaded. This is not always desirable.
What about the DOMContentLoaded event? It is supported by Mozilla and,
apparently, Opera 9. Dean Edwards has a technique to make it work on IE,
and jQuery supports it on Safari [1].
Is there any chance DOMContentLoaded will be part of HTML5?
-Matt
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