IE not blocking javascript

Posted by Corey Hart on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Corey Hart
Published on 2010-06-08T19:03:01Z Indexed on 2010/06/08 19:22 UTC
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It seems that IE8 defers javascript, but also doesn't block. I've setup a test environment to prove this. Here's the html page(replace 192.168.1.xxx with your server):

<html>
<head>
 <title>IE Pains</title>
 <script type='text/javascript' src='http://192.168.1.xxx/ietest/js.js'></script>
 <script type='text/javascript'>
  scream('hello world');
 </script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

And the js File:

function scream( str ) {
 alert( str );
}

Am I seeing this wrong, or does IE not recognize the scream function because it hasn't finished loading js.js?

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