Re: [whatwg] Deferring javascript download and execution until after onload

On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Andy Davies <dajdavies@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The script defer attribute allows us to defer JS until after
> > DOMContentLoaded (?) but it will still execute before onLoad
> > 
> > Sometimes there's a quite a bit of content on a page that could be
> > deferred until after onLoad, for example suplemental content such as
> > social media buttons, feedback forms etc. where they really don't make
> > much sense until the page hase loaded.
> > 
> > Currently patterns like the code below are being used to implement
> > this type of behaviour but has any thought been given to being able to
> > specify as part of the script element that the script could be
> > deferred until after onLoad?
> > 
> > <script>
> > (function(w, d, s) {
> > function go(){
> > var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], load = function(url, id) {
> > if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
> > js = d.createElement(s); js.src = url; js.id = id;
> > fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
> > };
> > load('//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=272697932759946&xfbml=1',
> > 'fbjssdk');
> > load('https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js', 'gplus1js');
> > load('//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js', 'tweetjs');
> > }
> > if (w.addEventListener) { w.addEventListener("load", go, false); }
> > else if (w.attachEvent) { w.attachEvent("onload",go); }
> > }(window, document, 'script'));
> > </script>
> > 
> > Script was borrowed from
> > http://www.aaronpeters.nl/blog/why-loading-third-party-scripts-async-is-not-good-enough
> > 
> 
> 
> There has been discussions about implementing a "noexec" attribute on
> <script> which would just load the script but instead of evaluating it
> as soon as it's available, simply fire the "load" event. There would
> also be an additional .execute() function on the script which would
> permit executing the script after it has been loaded.
> 
> 

What happens to the execute() function after the first time it's called? Is it magically removed? Is it nulled? If not, what happens when it's called twice for the same script? 

Rick
 
> 
> This has mostly been discussed in a performance context where people
> has expressed interest in loading scripts, while only waiting to
> execute it until needed in order to avoid the costs involved in
> parsing and executing the script.
> 
> So far Hixie hasn't been interested in putting this into the spec
> though, due to, as I understand it, not being convinced that it's
> needed from a performance point of view.
> 
> I'd personally be interested to see it implemented since people
> clearly do load scripts dynamically and it would seem common for such
> scripts to have dependencies on each other, which means that you have
> to be able to execute them in a certain order.
> 
> / Jonas

Received on Tuesday, 18 September 2012 08:26:57 UTC