Jquery getScript caching

Question

By Default $.getScript() disables caching and you can use $.ajaxSetup and set caching to true. When testing if the script is actually cached with Firebug most of the time t

Answer 1

There is an error as of the date this question was posted where both Firefox and Chrome would state that a script is not being loaded from Cache when it indeed is. As of the date of this answer this issue still exists. The easiest way to test is to use console.log and send out a version number.

To cache a dynamically loaded script it it simply done by using the following code.

function onDemandScript ( url, callback ) {
    callback = (typeof callback != 'undefined') ? callback : {};

    $.ajax({
         type: "GET",
         url: url,
         success: callback,
         dataType: "script",
         cache: true
     });    
}

For development you should comment out cache: true.