You could use $.getScript to load in the slow loading scripts. Any scripts loaded this way will be non-blocking (asynchronous). -- Brandon Aaron
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:13 PM, hedgomatic <hedgoma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > While virtually every site in existence trumpets using the jQuery DOM- > ready shortcut as an absolute must, I've come across situations which > I feel frustrate the user, particularly when using jQuery to create a > navigational element. > > I often work on sites which are going to have a lot of external > content (ads, feeds, analytics), and if even one of them is sluggish > to load, none of my interactive elements are responsive for that time. > > There seem to be three options: > > 1] liveQuery (disadvantage: overhead) > 2] popping a loading message over the whole page (disadvantage: > ridiculous) > 3] nesting an image inside the portion of the DOM we need, and using > an onLoad event (disadvantage: poor semantics). > > > Anyone else come across any novel ways around this seemingly under- > discussed issue? > > >
