cointilt/loadScript.js

Created July 25, 2014 16:42

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loadScript.js

	var s = document.createElement('script');

	s.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	s.setAttribute('src', 'script.js');

	document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(s);

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cointilt commented Jul 25, 2014

I have also seen it done this way:

var s = document.createElement('script');

s.type = 'text/javascript';
s.src = 'script.js';
s.async = true;

document.getElementByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(s);

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cointilt commented Sep 9, 2014

Looks like I have my answer:

http://jsperf.com/add-script-element-to-dom

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