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including/ importing javascript files

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:47 am
by kendall
Hi,

I'm not a javascript pro or anything but....can you include/ import javascript files from within another javascript file?

Re: including/ importing javascript files

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 12:26 pm
by arjan.top
http://ajaxpatterns.org/On-Demand_Javascript

look at DOM based on demand javascript :wink:

Re: including/ importing javascript files

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:09 pm
by LSJason

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document.writeln('<script src="LOCATION_OF_OTHER_FILE" type="text/javascript"></script>');
 
That may or may not work, depending on the rest of the code.

Re: including/ importing javascript files

Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 3:13 pm
by HCBen
If you don't mind using a js framework, check out mootools' Assets function: http://docs.mootools.net/Remote/Assets.js

Re: including/ importing javascript files

Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 7:00 pm
by JAB Creations
I always recommend not using a framework by default as a large portion of people surfing the internet are still using dial-up most especially here in the US where broadband providers don't feel obligated to wire customers who don't live in residentially concentrated areas. For example as much as I love jQuery when it's even compressed it will require about 8-10 seconds to load alone (in addition to your own work/images/etc).

Re: including/ importing javascript files

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 1:50 am
by arjan.top
8-10s?

so dial-up is 5KB/s? and jquery is 15KB, so it's 3 seconds and that is only the first time, javascript is loaded from cache on all the other requests