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I've thought to myself, "I wish there was a timeout attribute on the <script> tag," about once every few months for the past 10 years. Is there any good reason

I've thought to myself, "I wish there was a timeout attribute on the <script> tag," about once every few months for the past 10 years. Is there any good reason you can't manually specify how long you want the browser to wait for an external file to load?

blasdel 16y ago
You can at least control the degree of blocking in the latest Webkit: http://webkit.org/blog/1395/running-scripts-in-webkit/ http://webkit.org/blog/1395/running-scripts-in-webkit/
- eli 16y ago
  I believe FFox 3.6 supports async attribute as well
stellar678 16y ago
There's no reason you couldn't code this up in JavaScript: load jquery from google - onload, set flag jquery_loaded settimeout load_locally_if_not_flag 5sec
- toolate 16y ago
  Don't forget that JavaScript is blocking. You'd need to load the jQuery from Google dynamically by inserting script tags. By the time you've added that, timeouts and fallbacks the amount of inline JS would make hosting jQuery on a CDN pointless.