Re: Placement of boot script in body vs. head

My understanding is that when the browser sees a <script> tag, it needs to block until the script resource is available before it can resume parsing and displaying the rest of the page's contents.  Putting the <script> tag at the end helps avoid this so the page renders faster.

Now that HTML has the async script attribute, that would be another option if you want to keep your script tags in the header.  (Note that there's a semantics difference since scripts might execute out of order depending on caching and network speeds.)

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Michael Allan <mike@zelea.com> wrote:

Why place the boot script in the document body, instead of the head?
https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideOrganizingProjects#DevGuideHostPage
https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideOrganizingProjects#DevGuideBootstrap

I've ignored the instructions and placed it in the head (std, xs and
xsiframe linkers) with no apparent problems.  What am I missing?

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