Is the callback on jQuery's getScript() unreliable or am I doing something wrong?

Question

I\'m using the following bit of script to load another one:

$.getScript(\"CAGScript.js\", function () {
    try {
        CAGinit();
    } catch(err) {
              


        

Answer 1

Just wanted to offer some insight I have on this issue. The callback won't fire if there is an error in the code you are loading and (at least on Chrome with jQuery 1.7.1) the error will be swallowed. I discovered that I had a stray curly brace from autocomplete in the code I was loading and the callback function didn't fire. Intermittent behavior here could be caused by changing the loaded code between tests.