milonic_data.js code placed directly on the page with menu?

rudy · Post by **rudy** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 12:24 am

I have been looking at other users Milonic menu pages and have noticed a couple of people who instead of uploading the milonic_data.js file separately to their server, they are putting the data that would normally be in the milonic_data.js file, right on the page where the small script code is on their page.

Do you think this increases the load time as the milonic_data.js file does not have to be retreived from the server because it is already on the page?

Here is an example link of one of these pages:

http://morsbank.inet-designer.dk/

Post by **John** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 1:17 am

One way or another it has to be retrieved from the server - whether it's in a separate file or on the main page. Either way it's too small to worry about. Personally I don't like splitting up the code.

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 2:25 am

Some people are generating the menu dynamic (PHP, ASP, ColdFusion). This is a reason why the menu code is stored in the html-file instead of the external JS-file.

Your sample from denmark is a bad example concering the implementation. The menu code should always be at the end of the file, not at the begining.
Google will not index this site in good way. Google interprets js as text, but it will classify this "text" as not important. A "classic" navigation and or a NoScript area is missing also. Bad luck for SE's...

A good example might by http://www.hr-swiss.ch (Still running with the old version of the menu)