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  "title":"defer attribute for external scripts",
  "description":"The boolean defer attribute on script elements allows the external JavaScript file to run when the DOM is loaded, without delaying page load first.",
  "spec":"https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html#attr-script-defer",
  "status":"ls",
  "links":[
    {
      "url":"https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/script#Attributes",
      "title":"MDN article"
    },
    {
      "url":"https://raw.github.com/phiggins42/has.js/master/detect/script.js#script-defer",
      "title":"has.js test"
    },
    {
      "url":"http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/html/attributes/defer",
      "title":"WebPlatform Docs"
    }
  ],
  "bugs":[
    {
      "description":"IE < 10 may interleave execution of scripts, [See the discussion](https://github.com/h5bp/lazyweb-requests/issues/42)."
    }
  ],
  "categories":[
    "DOM",
    "HTML5"
  ],
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      "8":"a #1",
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      "11":"y"
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      "12":"y",
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      "3.5":"y #2",
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      "4":"y #2",
      "5":"y #2",
      "6":"y #2",
      "7":"y #2",
      "8":"y #2",
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      "13":"y #2",
      "14":"y #2",
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      "17":"y #2",
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      "21":"y #2",
      "22":"y #2",
      "23":"y #2",
      "24":"y #2",
      "25":"y #2",
      "26":"y #2",
      "27":"y #2",
      "28":"y #2",
      "29":"y #2",
      "30":"y #2",
      "31":"y",
      "32":"y",
      "33":"y",
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      "4":"n",
      "5":"n",
      "6":"n",
      "7":"n",
      "8":"y",
      "9":"y",
      "10":"y",
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      "12":"y",
      "13":"y",
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      "17":"y",
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      "11":"n",
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      "12":"n",
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      "2.1":"n",
      "2.2":"n",
      "2.3":"n",
      "3":"y",
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      "4.1":"y",
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      "12.1":"n",
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      "51":"y"
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      "11":"y"
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      "4":"y"
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  "notes":"",
  "notes_by_num":{
    "1":"Partial support in older IE refers to a buggy implementation (see issue).",
    "2":"Deferred scripts may run after DOMContentLoaded - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688580"
  },
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  "ucprefix":false,
  "parent":"",
  "keywords":"",
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  "chrome_id":"",
  "firefox_id":"",
  "webkit_id":"",
  "shown":true
}