Werner, thanks for making the effort with the changed subject. But for
most mail clients this will not suffice as they are tracking message
id's, and these are retained when you *reply* to an existing post. To
really start a new thread you have to write a fresh message to the
mailing list. Will you give it another try?!

T.

On 04/14/2010 06:52 PM, Werner Thie wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I spent the last two days with a nasty problem
> occurring with WebKit. If using JS in a multifile situation you can
> easily observe (just put a debugger; or alert statement at the beginning
> of the file) that WebKit (Safari, Chrome) does NOT in order loading of
> given JS files, meaning you end up in a situation where JS code might
> sometimes run and sometimes fail dependent on server/local situations. I
> don't know where the WebKit guys got this crazy idea that evaluating JS
> source out of order might speed up things, but they clearly did it that
> way which is in my opinion violating the specs.
> 
> Solving the problem means you have to introduce a system of guaranteeing
> that code you depend on is loaded when the file in question is evaluated
> (see code below)
> 
> Werner
> 
> Assuming that a file yyy.js containing JS code injects a top level
> object with the filename yyy and is dependent on xxx.js:
> 
> //// code goes someplace early, like Application.js
> modulesWaiting = {};
> 
> function moduleLoaded(module) {
>   modulesWaiting[module] = null;
> }
> 
> function waitForModules(module, f) {
>   modulesWaiting[module] = f;
>   for (var m in modulesWaiting) {
>     if (modulesWaiting[m])
>       modulesWaiting[m]();
>   }
> }
> 
> //// code of a single file yyy.js dependant on code in file xxx.js
> waitForModules('yyy', function() {
>   var deps = ['xxx'];  //comma separated list of modules
>   var loaded = true;
>   for (var i=0; i<deps.length; i++)
>     loaded = loaded && (deps[i] != null);
>   if (loaded) {
>     //here comes the source, Luke
>     //your source code
> 
>     yyy = {};          //signal readyness by defining this object
>     moduleLoaded('yyy');
>   }
> });
> 
> 
> 
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