[whatwg] Apply script.defer to internal scripts

Gareth Hay gazhay at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 04:07:58 PDT 2007


+1

imho, doing something like this is a much better solution, again imho.

On 29 Mar 2007, at 11:58, Matthias Bauer wrote:

> 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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