RES: RES: [Javascript] Including additional javascript files

[Alex Robinson]

>If you?d tried the code you?d have seen that this function  also works with
>nesting includes in other includes.
>Just put the function in the first include, so that the rest of the code can
>use it.

My apologies Allard.

You're quite right that it works.

http://www.fu2k.org/alex/javascript/javascriptjunk/js_include.html

This is probably exactly the technique I saw before - I just didn't 
recognise it. I was, in my hot-headed way, thinking that the 
document.writes would need to be explicitly placed within a script 
tag inn the document or else the doc.writes would overwrite the 
pre-existing content.

The method does have two down sides.

1. Every initial file that needs to do the include thing will need 
the Loadscript function.

Of course, it's somewhat churlish of me to expect this functionality 
for free (though why the hell doesn't javascript have includes as 
part of the core?) and it's really just a one line copy and paste job.

2. It won't work if the document is xhtml served as xml

The fix for that situation I guess is would be to return to the idea 
I mentioned before of inserting the script element via the DOM.


Last observation is that some browsers halt execution of the current 
js file while loading the next one and others carry on regardless. 
This shouldn't be a problem in real world usage if care is taken, but 
I can foresee it causing head scratching problems late at night

Apologies once again Allard, and thanks aplenty :)