Comments on: Load only the jQuery plugins you need, when you need them

By: hank

hank — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:16:50 +0000

Yeah that sounds slightly better, though I hope the whole problem has a more graceful solution than just putting a delay on dependent functions.

Thanks for that workaround (though your link doesn’t seem to work for me).

By: xavier dutoit

xavier dutoit — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:40:43 +0000

I wanted to solve two problems: the 200ms might still not be enough depending of the plugin, and I wanted to avoid to force visitors to wait 200ms if the function is already available

Instead of putting the setTimeout in the callback, I put it on a separate function that contains the init code for the plugin

http://free.of.charge.and.unasked.eu/lazy_loading_a_jquery_plugin

By: Hiren Mansuriya

Hiren Mansuriya — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:48:27 +0000

Thanks man.. It is really helpful…

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By: hank

hank — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:37:19 +0000

Great, glad it was helpful for somebody. :)
Thanks for stopping by.

By: Georg

Georg — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:25:55 +0000

You really saved my day.
Everytime you try to call a function to an element that does not exist with Query, Firebug reports a “F is not defined” error. Using your function in a slightly different way, i can avoid this error. Many thanks for sharing!