On 11/12/2009 12:56 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I think it would be nice to have the possibility to post-load some of
> the JavaScript extensions, as a way to ease performance best practices
> for developers. (See
> http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#postload for example).
>
> It would also allow people to easily add hungry third party scripts
> (like the google analytics tracker) in a non intrusive manner and not
> sacrificing performance (no need to modify/override htmlfooter.vm for
> example, a simple SX always-use will do).
>
> I see different ways of doing that :
>
> 1) Either we say all document JSX are post-loaded, and we move the hook
> down the DOM just before the closing</body>  tag.
> 2) Either we have 2 hooks and we leave it as an option to be post-loaded.

Wouldn't the defer attribute be much simpler? It does almost the same 
thing, but using only HTML, and requires very little changes.

We can add a new property in the JSX class to differentiate defered and 
non-defered extensions.

> My preference goes to 1), as I don't see any good use case where a
> extension would need not to be post-loaded; and 2) is not so elegant to
> implement with the current SX mecanism.


-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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