Is it better (in any way) to use jQuery’s getScript to load the external JS than linking the javascripts manually in the html?
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Is it better (in any way) to use jQuery’s getScript to load the external JS than linking the javascripts manually in the html?
If the javascript file you want to load is somewhat optional, e.g. for a specific browser or maybe geolocation, i’d use
getScript; otherwise I’d see no need to push the ‘include’ further down in the page loading process than a plain htmlscript.If you are concerned about performance, i would guess that the ‘plain-method’ is faster, but I haven’t tested it. For web page load time performance tuning, there is a nice tool, called yslow, which is a firebug extension.