Timo Tijhof · @krinkle
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Later in the linked episode, @jaffathecake talks about <script async> and its benefit over <script deferred> on large pages.

This includes articles, where we use it since 2015 for faster time until elements are interactive (for late content we use delegate event handlers, , or DOM ready).

Someone asked recently why we don't use deferred, I explained in more detail at:
phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325

See also docs:
mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoa

#http203 #wikipedia #mutationobserver #mediawiki

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