On 4/29/13, David Bruant <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 29/04/2013 22:21, Benjamin Stürmer a écrit : >> I have been reading about a technique described here ( >> http://googlecode.blogspot.de/2009/09/gmail-for-mobile-html5-series-reducing.html) >> for deferring the parsing of scripts until they are actually required. >> This >> can be a useful technique for allowing lazy-loading of script without >> AJAX. >> A common method used to achieve this (the method described in the linked >> article) is commenting-out blocks of code and then uncommenting it and >> running it via eval(), which is obviously not an ideal solution. >> Obviously not. Nor will it work for external SCRIPT elements (not "tags").
>> Has there been any consideration given to an attribute to mark a script >> tag >> as "do not parse or execute" until it's been triggered? David Anderson proposed the 'execute' method. Great idea; no traction. Also http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2011Feb/0245.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2009Feb/0065.html A shame that the examples aren't up anymore (can't work for free on this). The replies on by Boris and Ian include some mistakes and distract about setTimeout, unfortunately. > I think if you put any invalid value in the "type" attribute of the > script element, then, the element won't be parsed nor executed. If your > script element has a given id, you can easily find the code > (document.getElementById(id).textContent) and eval it. > Obviously not an ideal solution. -- Garrett Twitter: @xkit personx.tumblr.com
