Cuzillionposted by Steve Souders, March 24, 2009 11:41 PM
Inline scripts block downloads and rendering, just like external scripts. Any resources below an inline script don't get downloaded until the inline script finishes executing. Nothing in the page is rendered until the inline script is done executing. When you click Reload, notice that the page is white for five seconds.<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
- image
on domain1 with a 1 second delay using HTML tags
- inline script block
with a 5 second execute time using HTML tags
- image
on domain1 with a 1 second delay using HTML tags
</BODY>
</HTML>