Load and execution sequence of a web page?

Question

I have done some web based projects, but I don\'t think too much about the load and execution sequence of an ordinary web page. But now I need to know detail. It\'s hard to

Answer 1

AFAIK, the browser (at least Firefox) requests every resource as soon as it parses it. If it encounters an img tag it will request that image as soon as the img tag has been parsed. And that can be even before it has received the totality of the HTML document... that is it could still be downloading the HTML document when that happens.

For Firefox, there are browser queues that apply, depending on how they are set in about:config. For example it will not attempt to download more then 8 files at once from the same server... the additional requests will be queued. I think there are per-domain limits, per proxy limits, and other stuff, which are documented on the Mozilla website and can be set in about:config. I read somewhere that IE has no such limits.

The jQuery ready event is fired as soon as the main HTML document has been downloaded and it's DOM parsed. Then the load event is fired once all linked resources (CSS, images, etc.) have been downloaded and parsed as well. It is made clear in the jQuery documentation.

If you want to control the order in which all that is loaded, I believe the most reliable way to do it is through JavaScript.