Further evidence that the current state of the web is not friendly with respect
to how browsers default to treating script loading/parsing/executing.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-the-hood-the-javascript-sdk-truly-asynchronous-loading/10151176218703920
The efforts tha
Ian,
> The only cost there could be is the cost
> of executing the script, and it's already trivial to offload that: just
> put all the code in a function, then call the function when you're ready.
> It's already possible now to design scripts such that they don't run until
> you call them, so
Ian,
> The cost of parsing the script can be done async, even off the main thread
> in theory, so it's a non-issue.
You have asserted many times that parsing is off the main thread, therefore it
doesn't matter. That makes the giant (and I think faulty) assumption that the
device in question ha
