On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+...@gmail.com> wrote: > As far as I understand it now, the actual problem here is that we want > to be able to separate download and execution, not parsing and > execution. But you can already do that by putting the whole script in > a comment, for instance, as Gmail does, so I'm not clear at this point > on why we need another feature in actual browsers.
James points out this doesn't work if you don't control the script at all -- e.g., if you're loading a copy of jQuery from a central location that serves many sites, in the interest of increasing cache hits or offloading bandwidth.