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shapper · Dec 11, 2008

Hello,

I am checking my web site according to Yahoo Best Practices and I get
a warning:

Put JS at the bottom
8 external scripts were found in the document HEAD. Could they be
moved lower in the page?

But shouldn't external scripts be loaded on the page head?

Thanks.
Miguel

Jonathan N. Little · Dec 11, 2008

shapper said:
Hello,

I am checking my web site according to Yahoo Best Practices and I get
a warning:

Put JS at the bottom
8 external scripts were found in the document HEAD. Could they be
moved lower in the page?

But shouldn't external scripts be loaded on the page head?

What made you think Yahoo was any authority on web design?

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://www.yahoo.com/
[Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.yahoo.com/ - W3C Markup Validator

The home page is not nearly as bad as other areas...

richard · Dec 11, 2008

Hello,

I am checking my web site according to Yahoo Best Practices and I get
a warning:

Put JS at the bottom
8 external scripts were found in the document HEAD. Could they be
moved lower in the page?

But shouldn't external scripts be loaded on the page head?

Thanks.
Miguel

JS can be placed anywhere it is needed.
Some script is better at the bottom but not ALL script.
External scripts go in the "head".
Screw their "best".

Nik Coughlin · Dec 11, 2008

richard said:
JS can be placed anywhere it is needed.
Some script is better at the bottom but not ALL script.
External scripts go in the "head".
Screw their "best".

All script should be external to the page and referenced in the head only.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtrusive_JavaScript

rf · Dec 11, 2008

Nik Coughlin said:
All script should be external to the page and referenced in the head only.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtrusive_JavaScript

And wikipedia is a more authoritive reference than Yahoo?

richard · Dec 11, 2008

All script should be external to the page and referenced in the head only.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtrusive_JavaScript

that source is about as authoratative as the posters in this group.
the wiki is not the "holy grale".

There are times when JS MUST be deployed at the bottom or in the
<body> tag. JS can also be deployed within other tags as needed.

you should try reading info at the w3c school reference site.

shapper · Dec 11, 2008

that source is about as authoratative as the posters in this group.
the wiki is not the "holy grale".

There are times when JS MUST be deployed at the bottom or in the
<body> tag. JS can also be deployed within other tags as needed.

you should try reading info at the w3c school reference site.

Yes I follow W3C advices ... that is why I thought it was strange
Yahoo advice.

So I am making it right.

Thank You,
Miguel

rf · Dec 11, 2008

richard said:
that source is about as authoratative as the posters in this group.
the wiki is not the "holy grale".

There are times when JS MUST be deployed at the bottom or in the
<body> tag. JS can also be deployed within other tags as needed.

you should try reading info at the w3c school reference site.\

Yeah, right. Watch out for all the errors though.

Chris F.A. Johnson · Dec 11, 2008

Yes I follow W3C advices ... that is why I thought it was strange
Yahoo advice.

There is no connection between the W3 Consortium (W3C) and
w3schools.com.

Jonathan N. Little · Dec 11, 2008

Chris said:
There is no connection between the W3 Consortium (W3C) and
w3schools.com.

Unfortunately too many are duped by the name!

Bergamot · Dec 11, 2008

richard said:
that source is about as authoratative as the posters in this group.

you should try reading info at the w3c school reference site.

You think w3schools is authoritative? Not hardly, certainly not any more
so than yahoo or wikipedia.

Justin McConnell · Dec 11, 2008

Hello,

I am checking my web site according to Yahoo Best Practices and I get
a warning:

Explanations for all warnings are listed here:
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

Put JS at the bottom
8 external scripts were found in the document HEAD. Could they be
moved lower in the page?

Some browsers stop downloading resources in parallel when they
encounter script blocks. In these cases, If you put the script block
at the bottom of the page then the entire page will load quicker.

But shouldn't external scripts be loaded on the page head?

Who says this? They don't need to be.

Harlan Messinger · Dec 11, 2008

Justin said:
Explanations for all warnings are listed here:
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

Some browsers stop downloading resources in parallel when they
encounter script blocks. In these cases, If you put the script block
at the bottom of the page then the entire page will load quicker.

Who says this? They don't need to be.

The notion of "best practices" (examples may include always using
permitted end tags and always delimiting attribute values in double
quotes in HTML 4.01) implies going beyond that which is required. One
might well classify among best practices for the design of a web page
the idea the body is for the content and the head is for the foundation,
including declarations and definitions.

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