I tend to use require.js for handling modular loading.

It's really fanastic for the purpose of handling dependencies as well.

http://requirejs.org/



On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Tony Bentley <[address removed]> wrote:
> To answer question #1, I've had great success with head.js for controlling blocking and non-blocking JS resource loading.
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> On May 10, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Jennifer Simonds wrote:
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>> I was struggling with 3rd-party page widgets that immediately load in
>> JavaScript files, thus slowing down the page load. Disqus was the real
>> killer for me - it loads in around a dozen scripts & css files! Some of my
>> pages rely on AJAX to initialize the page's contents, so they became
>> embarrassingly slow to load.
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>> So I wrote a class, LateLoad.js, that makes it easy to delay loading
>> external scripts until window.onload, $(document).ready, a fixed timeout, or
>> when you explicitly tell it it's OK to load. It works like a champ on all
>> but one of the few widgets I've used it for.
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>> http://www.atomicjetpacks.com/blog/6/lateload-a-javascript-class-to-delay-widget-loading
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>> I have 2 questions:
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>> 1. I've seen scattered blog & StackOverflow posts on this subject, & Steve
>> Souders writes at length about some techniques to use, but is there a class
>> or library that "everyone" already uses to accomplish this? If I'm
>> reinventing some wheel that everyone already uses & is happy with, it might
>> not be worth it for me to push this out there on the world.
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>> 2. If you try LateLoad, could you please report back your results - good or
>> bad - in the comments on my site so I can build up a compatibility list? The
>> results would drive future development.
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>> Thanks!
>> Jenny Simonds
>> W. Seattle
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