Why does this not work?
<script type="text/javascript" src="//cdn.com/assets/js/jquery.js">
alert("Hello World!");
</script>
But this does?
<script type="text/javascript" src="//cdn.com/assets/js/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
alert("Hello World!");
</script>
This is general across many HTML tags that pull from source. Micro optimization is important in my situation and I am also curious.
From w3.org (emphasis mine):
If the src has a URI value, user agents must ignore the element's contents and retrieve the script via the URI.
from http://javascript.crockford.com/script.html:
"If the src attribute is not present, then the content text between the <script> and the </script> is compiled and executed."
As there is a src attribute, the content is not executed
In the first example you define the src which makes it IGNORE the contents of the <script></script>
In the 2nd example you have 2 separate <script></script> tags, the 2nd of which is housing your code to execute.
