Asynchrony Load Webpage Page: Loved Your Performance

Posted: Oct/22/2009 By: pankaj Points:15 Category: HTML/XML - HTML Views:162 Vote Up (1) Vote Down (0)

As I first wrote about back in December 1997 (Frequent Flyers: Boosting Performance on DHTML Pages), one way to improve performance is to break your sites up into more-reusable components, such Cascading Style Sheets and include files for commonly used script. Last month, as I looked at all the DHTML sites people sent in, it was clear that including common script via the method is becoming more common.

One problem people seem to be running into is the dreaded asynchrony issue. "Asynchrony"? What's that? For the purposes of HTML, asynchrony means that events do not always occur one after the other in a predictable way.

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