New home page

[Lionello Lunesu]

On 5-10-2010 2:33, Walter Bright wrote:
> Robert Clipsham wrote:
>> On 04/10/10 03:59, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Lionello Lunesu wrote:
>>>> The new page loads terribly slow because of some embedded resource
>>>> from twitter.com. Twitter is blocked in China, so when I open your
>>>> website nothing is shown until the connection to twitter times out.
>>>> Perhaps you can use XmlHttpRequest in javascript to load the twitter
>>>> stuff on the 'background'?
>>>
>>> The previous page had the same javascript in it. I don't know how this
>>> one could load slow and the previous one not.
>>>
>>> Can you post a diff for how to change the html to load in the
>>> background?
>>
>> Rather than getting the JS to load it in the background, the lazy
>> option is to move the two <script> tags to the bottom of the html
>> before </body> rather than before </head>. Browsers will block
>> rendering of the page if it encounters a script tag until the script
>> has been loaded - by placing them at the end the page will be
>> rendered, followed by loading the scripts.
>
> Done. Good idea!

Works!