[Users] onload ="init();" or ext.onReady(function()...)

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 04:02:04PM +0000, Robert Buckley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When developing a relatively large ext/geoext app, which would be the best way 
> of starting the app from the initial html page? I am rather confused about which 
> does what and which is better for performance. 
> 
> 
> As far as I can understand the following happens..
> 
> onload="init();" triggers the javascript code when the html page is fully loaded 
> into the browser
> 
> Ext.onReady(function()...loads when the ext.js library has been loaded into the 
> browser (..cache?)so which is more effective?

The latter runs when the browser fires the DOMReady event.

Unfortunately, if you have VML layers, IE fires too soon -- the 
document.namespaces element is not actually ready yet, so VML layers
will cause IE to throw an error if you don't use onload= .

> yours,
> 
> Robert
> 

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Christopher Schmidt
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