Re: [jQuery] Best Practices or unobtrusive Javascript

2009-11-30 Thread Shawn
The blocking is an issue, but only if you end up loading more than XXX number of elements at a time. The specific number is browser dependent. I think I read somewhere that IE8 and FF3.5 will only load 4 items concurrently (CSS files, JS libraries, images, etc). So, the knee-jerk solution is

Re: [jQuery] Best Practices or unobtrusive Javascript

2009-11-29 Thread RafaƂ Pocztarski
2009/11/30 breadwild : > I have seen several examples on jQuery plugin sites that have the >

Re: [jQuery] Best Practices or unobtrusive Javascript

2009-11-29 Thread Shawn
When doing dynamic sites, you sometimes have no choice but to put the JS in the body area. My rule of thumb is to use libraries wherever possible and include those libraries in the section. But with the understanding that *sometimes* (though rarely these days) I will need to put JS into the