[thelist] Problems with late arrivals of JS SRCs

Wed Jan 9 07:20:29 CST 2002

in IE 4 and up there is a read-only property of the document object called 
"readyState" which holds real time updated info on the loading state of the 
page.

it can hold one of the following values:
complete - page finished loading completely
interactive - something to do with being able to interact with some of the 
page's loaded objects, but it's not finished loading them all yet
loading - hmmm... ? :)
uninitialized - i guess this is an error code of some sort

if you pole this periodically, you can test whether the page has completely 
loaded

use something like..
<body onload="checkLoaded()">
blah...
</body>

then in the first js listed in the header put

var nTimerID;

function checkLoaded()
{
	if(document.readyState != "complete")
		nTimerID = setTimeout("checkLoaded()", 100);	// waits 1/10th of a second 
then calls the function again
	else
		doTheNextThing();	// call whatever needs to be called next
}

or, you could just put all your JS into one file ;-)

i'm sure none of this code will be useful, and you probably want it to work 
in Netscape/Mozilla/Opera as well...

good luck
simon