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JavaScript and CSS in external files???, was Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript)

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Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com> wrote on 27 jun 2014 in 
comp.lang.javascript:

> And putting JavaScript and CSS in external files is a 
> recommended practice, because these files are cached by the browser, 
> reducing the number of HTTP requests and the size of the HTML document.
> 

This should NOT be recommended to newbees like the OP in the developement of 
a piece of code they are learning and debugging.

You don't want a confused browser to execute the cached version while you 
are debugging. 

So, if you are confident your code is finalized, yes then you could make an 
external js file.

My code is never finalized, and the extra HTTP-requests don't realy have any  
significant impact on the behavour when the js or the CSS is much smaller 
than a single image[, well perhaps on a outdated mobile G2 connection that 
hickups on images too]. 

So I seldom use external js/css, and yes, sometimes I use serverside 
includes of such code, even as part of a single declared script-element.

> JavaScript [....] in external files is a recommended practice

Methinks such recommandation is severely outdated, only marginally usefull 
and contra-indicated for newbees in scripting and experimental coding.

> [...] CSS in external files is a recommended practice

The same arguments are valid for CSS.

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-06-26 20:09 +0200
  Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Philip Herlihy <bounceback@you.com> - 2014-06-27 00:02 +0100
    Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-06-27 02:34 +0200
      Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-26 22:43 -0300
        JavaScript and CSS in external files???, was Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-06-27 09:19 +0200
        Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-27 10:22 +0200
          Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2014-06-27 17:23 -0300
            Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-27 23:28 +0200
              Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-27 23:45 -0300
                Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-28 10:30 +0100
      Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-27 10:19 +0200
    Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-27 10:12 +0200
    Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-27 10:16 +0200
    Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-27 10:16 +0200
    Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Philip Herlihy <bounceback@you.com> - 2014-06-30 11:02 +0100
  Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) BootNic <bootnic.bounce@gmail.com> - 2014-06-26 23:18 -0400
    Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Philip Herlihy <bounceback@you.com> - 2014-06-30 11:31 +0100
      Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-06-30 13:37 +0200
        Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-06-30 13:40 +0200
          Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Philip Herlihy <bounceback@you.com> - 2014-07-01 12:41 +0100
            Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-07-01 14:28 +0200
              Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Philip Herlihy <bounceback@you.com> - 2014-07-01 15:52 +0100
                Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-07-01 18:08 +0200
        Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2014-06-30 06:22 -0700
          Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-06-30 14:32 +0000
            Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2014-06-30 13:16 -0700
              Re: Dynamic CSS adjustments (JavaScript) Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-06-30 23:14 +0000
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