iframe for ad loading good or bad?
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According to Yahoo's "Best Practices for Speeding Up your Site", the pros for using iframes:
- Helps with slow third-party content like badges and ads
- Download scripts in parallel
but the cons are:
- Costly even if blank
- Blocks page onload
I want to use an iframe to load ads using the technique mentioned on this site: http://meanderingpassage.com/2007/08/15/keeping-javascript-widgets-from-controlling-your-blog/
Does using this technique mean that as soon as the html contents requested by the iframe are returned to the client, it will load the ad script, potentially blocking the rest of the page's rendering and downloading? Or will the iframe request get processed concurrently while rest of the document is downloaded and rendered?
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