Hi all, I played around with Steve Souders' techniques of loading JS without blocking a bit (I had already been using jQuery's getScript/ajax to load bigger chunks of code for certain parts of the site only if necessary). I tried to use what Nicolas Zakas calls "the best way to load JS" (http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2009/07/28/the-best-way-to-load- external-javascript/) for the project I work on.
I created the <script...> tag for jquery.js the way described in the article, and then tried to use onload/readystate to start loading the file with my plugins/functions right after jquery did. This seems to work fine in all browsers except, you guessed it, IE... For some reason IE (I think it happened in 6, 7 and 8) throws me an unknown error every now and then. It's just a guess, since an "unknown error" doesn't really help me debugging, but maybe sometimes the plugin/functions file finishes loading before jquery. Even though that should be prevented by checking the readystate... I tried several other approaches then (like adding an ajax call to the plugins/functions file at the end of the jquery file, or checking for (typeof jQuery == 'undefined') in a loop to try loading the files as soon as this statement equals false), but none would work. Is anybody using one of these non-blocking techniques with jQuery successfully? Thanks
