New home page

[Walter Bright]

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!


> Alternatively you could use the HTML5 attributes with the script tag to 
> make the scripts load in the background regardless, I don't know what 
> browser support is like for this though.