On Apr 8, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Jake McGraw wrote:
Regardless of whether it validates, it's considered best practices to
keep all <script> tags out of the body:
It all depends who "consideres".
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#js_bottom
If you put your scripts at the very end of a page, it is possible that
a user already sees part of the page including a button with a
JavaScript function call, while the rest of the page hasn't loaded
yet. Result: user pushes button and gets JavaScript Error Message
Alerts, because the browser can't find the script (yet).
True, if you do things like:
<input type="button" onclick="checkform()" />
Then again not a problem if you write unobtrusive JavaScript.
$(function() {
$("input").bind("click", checkform);
});
And isn't jQuery about writing unobtrusive JavaScript? ;)
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