Just for the record. If your creating a website with javascript to add functionlity the approach of loading the javascript at the bottom is correct. But if your site striongly depends on javascript (the case of a webapp) the best is to load javascript as soon as you can.
Regards, -- Pablo Viojo [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pviojo.net On Jan 7, 2008 12:59 PM, cmbg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to have the page completely render, so it doesn't appear that > the user is not arriving to the page they wanted. When I have a lot > of javascript files loading in the head tag, it takes awhile before > the user sees anything. As I was doing research on it, I found that > putting the javascript at the bottom allieviates the problem. Most of > the javascript is adding events to data grids and other interactivity > depending on the page. > > On Jan 7, 10:43 am, "Chris Hartjes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2008 10:27 AM, cmbg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a large javascript (maybe 30KB) files and one of things that I > > > want the browser to execute these files last so I put the > > > $scripts_for_layout at the bottom of my default layout. The problem > > > I've run into is I also have custom css for certain views, now the css > > > also prints outside of the head tag, which then causes the styles to > > > be applied last. > > > > Why do you want the javascript to be executed last? > > > > -- > > Chris Hartjes > > Internet Loudmouth > > Motto for 2008: "Moving from herding elephants to handling snakes..." > > @TheKeyBoard:http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---