Re: Executing script-inserted external scripts in insertion order

?> Maybe
> we should try to address the use case directly rather than trying to
> hack around with the async attribute?

I'm confused as to why this proposal seems illogical or "hacky". Here's how 
it seems to work cleanly in my mind:

Regardless of whether the script is inserted by the parser or by another 
script, if you want a set of scripts to behave "asynchronous" (that is, 
execute each in the set "as soon as possible") then you set `async=true`. If 
you want them to behave "non-asynchronous" (that is, execute each in 
insertion order), you set `async=false`.

That seems quite logical and defendable to me, and is far more intuitive to 
me than introducing other attributes. What's *not* logical to me is that 
script-inserted scripts currently ASSUME `async=true` behavior (but yet do 
NOT expose such a property), and moreover give no way to override that 
behavior.

--Kyle

Received on Monday, 18 October 2010 05:40:57 UTC