Kalin

From	Kalin
Date	5 April 2004 13:00

This is the result of a chat on IRC. I don't normally document these, but I figured the points that this raised were important enough.

Kalin was following an online JavaScript tutorial, and had been caught out by a mistake in the tutorial. Basically, he was doing this:

<script src="externalScriptFile.js">
someFunctionInTheExternalFile();
</script>

I pointed out that script tags can either import or embed scripts, but not do both, so the correct code would be:

<script src="externalScriptFile.js"></script>
<script>
someFunctionInTheExternalFile();
</script>

I also pointed him to the part of my tutorial that deals with importing and embedding scripts. He is now using my tutorial to learn JavaScript.