[Phpwm] javascript content in a page

[Phil Beynon]

> > > Is there any limit to the amount of javascript that technically can be
> > > included in a page?
> > > I'm assuming no clashes between individual scripts etc.
> > > Or can you just keep on loading up a page with little features and
> > widgets
> > > and expect the users browser to happily process it all regardless?
> >
> >
> > There's no real limit to how much can be included, the browser will
> > just plough through it as fast as it can.
> > There are many things you can do to improve performance where js is
> > concerned, but to what lengths it is worth going obviously depends on
> > the scenario.
> >
> > Greg
> >
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> I've yet to see a limit to the ammount although (I believe) that there are
> loading implciations and obviously you're downloading these text
> files from
> the server so there's bandwidth issues / page loading times.
>
> I believe frameworks such as prototype and scriptalicious have seperate
> classes that can be loaded in as and when a application needs it.
>

If you have the javascript in seperate linked files where possible though
doesnt the browser thus cache them, so they don't have to be repeatedly
downloaded?

Phil