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I need to prioritize scripts so jQuery, Cufon, and my .js files come before Twitter does. I've tried defer="defer" as well as placing scripts in the bottom in the order I want them to execute but all these methods aren't working.

I don't want to modify Twitter's files either. Anything I can do?

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Have your script create the html to have the Twitter script downloaded. That way it will be loaded and executed after your script, which comes after jQuery and Cufon.

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Remember that defer is not standard and only supported by IE. Also, give more information. "aren't working" isn't a lot to go by. The order of compiling and executing Javascript is well define, so if you're doing things right they should execute in the right order. However, remember that a syntax error in any block will forbid the entire block from executing, so make sure something you think is running earlier is actually running at all.

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IIRC, FF3.5 supports defer as well. It's also being codified in HTML5, so expect more support across browsers (webkit, for example, is already working on it — bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20710)
I'm fairly sure my code is correct: it all runs, but Twitter holds Cufon, jQuery, etc. from running and the website looks ridiculous. Also, the jump is unacceptable. In the end I just used append() to add the Twitter code. It was my understanding that this wouldn't work so I was very surprised when it worked.

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