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swah on Jan 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Visitor.js

What are the advantages of concatenating the data with the JS vs making a request? Only page load time?

guptaneil on Jan 6, 2012 [–]

You can't make a cross-domain ajax request, so all of the data needs to be included with the JS.

swah on Jan 6, 2012 | [–]

I had never thought of doing this. Its a great idea. How widespread is this technique?

slig on Jan 7, 2012 | | [–]

Quite, it's mostly used as JSONP. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP

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