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Re: Dynamically inserting script elements

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Christoph Michael Becker wrote:

> I don't know if there is any standard specification of the behavior, but
> a quick test on current stable Chrome required to insert the script
> element into the DOM before the script was loaded.

There is something close that specifies exactly this behavior:

<http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-html5-20140204/scripting-1.html#the-script-element>

I think it is only logical that the script element resource would not be 
parsed before it is inserted because a client-side script may depend on 
symbols defined in other scripts that may need to be included dynamically as 
well.

However, it should be noted that loading script elements this way is 
asynchronous: you cannot assume that the symbols in the loaded script are 
immediately available afterwards.  It is therefore good that HTML5 CR also 
specifies events like “beforescriptexecute”, “afterscriptexecute” and, most 
notably, “load”, for the “script” element.  It would appear that, finally, 
there is going to be a standards-compliant way to load script resources 
dynamically without resorting to hacks and XHR.

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    Re: strange splits "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-06-12 10:18 +0200
      Dynamically inserting script elements (was: strange splits) Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-06-14 17:55 +0200
        Re: Dynamically inserting script elements Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-14 21:43 +0200
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