Article:		Fixing AJAX: XMLHttpRequest Considered Harmful
Subject:		synchronous script tag hack?
Date:		2005-12-13 17:21:39
From:		dr_burrito
This is a very useful and insightful article, though I think there's one important mistake in the Script Tag Hack section: "For all other web browsers, the script tag essentially fetches data synchronously." Ideally, I'd like to do just that -- include a script synchronously in Firefox and other browsers. But in my testing, the script inclusion is asynchronous. I can only safely proceed with the new script if I use an event handler or polling. Is there a way to do truly synchronous on-demand JS?

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