That's how jQuery loads scripts from remote domains now, allowing cross-domain requests.
Cheers -- Ariel Flesler http://flesler.blogspot.com/ On Mar 28, 12:49 pm, sotretus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys, > > I was looking the code for the getScript() function and I saw that > when the javascript (text) file is received you "eval()"uate it, thus > executing what is inside. This seems to be a rather common way of > loading javascript since I have seen it in other frameworks as well. > > Still, I've been using another approach that seems to work fine (at > least) in FF and IE. Insted of getting the file and evaluating it, I > just add a new SCRIPT element to the HEAD of the document with the > specified URL. The main difference with this is that I can check if > that script was already loaded (maybe by another component) and thus > avoid loading it twice. > (something like this: > > [code] > var script = document.createElement('script'); > script.type = 'text/javascript'; > script.src = uri; > document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script); > [/code] > > (Of course I am not checking for anything, but just to clarify) > > I am pretty sure that there is a good reason why to use eval instead > of my approach, but I just wanted to know why. > > Cheers > AB
