[Contrib: Evaluation System] RSF: Why does one script-tag get rendered before others?

[Charles Hedrick]

Some reordering seems to happen, though I'm not sure whether it's in the portal or RSF. RSF entries tagged rsf:id="scr=portal-matter" are reordered. Other labels may be as well. I haven't seen any other type of reordering. This is done to integrate it with the portal structure. Beware that the PDA portal is handled in fairly different ways. Everything has to be tested separately with the normal and PDA portals. 

One thing that particularly got us was that a jQuery load was inserted after the one we had. This resulted in problems because some things we had set up in jquery got stomped on when the automatically supplied one reinitialized data. But I couldn't depend upon theirs because it didn't always happen. I solved it by moving ours into the body, where RSF/portal don't mess with things.


On Jan 11, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Jim Eng wrote:

> In sakai 2.9.x (using RSF 0.7.5) I am seeing occasional errors related to javascript files. One of the script tags is rendered out-of-order, along with the top items in the head tag for no apparent reason.  This happens in spite of the fact that the tag for that file is lower in the list of script tags in the template.  It ends up causing an error because the tag for the jquery file has not been rendered yet, and this other file depends on jquery.  
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> I have tried rearranging script tags within the head tag to try to get it to render later, but it seems like RSF grabs that tag and moves it up near the top of the head tag no matter what I do. 
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> This seems to cause parts of the UI not to be rendered correctly after AJAX requests, presumably because that javascript file is never actually loaded.  
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> Suggestions?
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> Thanks.
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> Jim
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