Off the blocks
| Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 | --Sean |
I have no particular skills with Javascript, but even I can understand that having your JS block your page from rendering isn't very good. I can also understand the well-written and interesting discussion of non-blocking Javascript downloads posted by Stoyan Stefanov at the YUI Blog, which clearly explains why and how Javascript can mess up how your page elements are downloaded and what you can do to get around it. The technique isn't really specific to Yahoo!, although you can use YUI Get to help pull down the includes, but it's awesome that we have a blog out there posting useful advice like this.