By Mat Marquis CHAPTER 5iOS6, Android 4.0, Chrome 24,
Firefox, IE 9, Opera 12 Opera 11
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dinosaur Downloaded No requestWhile eCSSential didn’t give us the definitive way forward we’d been
hoping for, it did lead to a number of bugs filed against browsers, and
conversations are taking place right now about how browsers might
asynchronously download inapplicable style sheets in an optimized, non-
blocking way.
JavaScript
The same approach we took with our CSS applies to our custom JavaScript:
we start with a basic set of scripts for everyone, and use the same test to
determine whether they get the enhanced JavaScript experience: media
query support.
The initial JavaScript payload includes: Filament’s Enhance.js^11
to conditionally request scripts and style sheets; Modernizr^12 as our
11 https://github.com/filamentgroup/enhance
12 http://modernizr.com/
Requested media attribute table: Interestingly, somewhere between version 11 and 12, Opera
decided that it should account for me plugging my laptop into an external brachiosaurus.