[whatwg] Removal of blocking script

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Juriy Zaytsev wrote:
>
> When removing [1] a long-loading script element from a document, 
> browsers seem to disagree on whether such removal should affect page 
> rendering. A simple test — 
> http://kangax.github.com/jstests/blocking_script_removal_test/— shows 
> that Opera (9.x - 11) and IE (5.5 - 9) immediately continue parsing the 
> document upon element removal. However, in Firefox (3-4) and Chrome (9) 
> the document parsing is blocked until script is loaded or times out 
> (even when the actual element no longer exists in the document, has its 
> "src" reference an empty string, and there exist no references to it).
> 
> Does current draft explain what should happen in such case, and if it 
> does — what is it (I can't seem to find it)? The existing discrepancy 
> suggests that it's something worth codifying.
> 
> [1] Where "removing" is done through scripting (say, via Node's 
> `removeChild` or analogous method).

The spec currently implies that the page should block for the full second, 
and that the script should still execute.

HTH,
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