Forcing a script to load in Safari -- help needed
 

Hi,

I've been beating my head against my inability to force Safari to dynamicall
y load an external Javascript file, and was wondering if anyone has any advi
ce. My current code works fine in Firefox and IE:

var e = document.createElement("script");

e.src = url;
e.type="text/javascript";
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(e);

I want the script to load and then execute. Any suggestions?

Re: Forcing a script to load in Safari -- help needed
 

I am afraid that I do not have a safari browser to test on. However, I did find, when testing with IE and Firefox, that I had to wait some time for some scripts to be loaded.

I used this code *similar* to this to load script files and check the function I want to load exists... sometimes it can take a few iterations before the function is available to the web page.

function importLibFile(file){

        var e = document.createElement("script");

        e.src = file;

        e.type="text/javascript";

        document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].insertBefore(e, document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]);

}



function loadPackage(func, libFile){

        if(document.libraries && !document.libraries[libFile]){

                document.libraries[libFile] = true;

                importLibFile(libFile);

        }

        try {

                func(null, function(s){alert(s);});

                document.getElementsByTagName("body").item(0).innerHTML += (libFile + " package loaded." +"<br/>");

        } catch(exception) {

                document.getElementsByTagName("body").item(0).innerHTML += ("Loading package " + libFile +"<br/>");

                // while appfunction doesn't load

                setTimeout(function(){ loadPackage(func, libFile); }, 250);

        }

}