Hi folks.

I have a page that uses a bit of inline javascript to drop in a couple
of items from an RSS feed.

The problem is that sometimes (more like almost always in my tests so
far) the page rendering hangs up half way through waiting for the JS
to do its work. I assume it's either waiting for the feed from the RSS
server or else waiting on the server that hosts the php script that
processes the feed (one of the free ones).

I don't mind the potential delay for the feed items to drop in, if
only the rest of the page would render around them.

So I was trying to find a way to delay the execution of the
javascript, poking around on various tutorial sites. But what I ended
up patching together doesn't work, and I suspect there's a problem
with the syntax, but its over my JS head, as it were.

Here's the code. Any ideas? Am I on the right track? (I'm sure I'm
supposed to replace "FooEndFunc" with something, but what?)

<script language="JavaScript"

var onFooEndFunc = function() {
var delay = 5000; /* milliseconds - vary as desired */
var executionTimer;

return function() {
if (executionTimer) {
clearTimeout(executionTimer);
}

executionTimer = setTimeout(function() {
src="http://feed2js.org//feed2js.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sdsuniverse.info%2Fnews_rss.ashx%3Fdid%3D80%26cats%3D36%2C&num=3
" type="text/javascript"
}, delay);
};
}();
></script>

Note: the code above still drops in the feeds, but there's no delay
(should be 5 secs in this test.)

Thanks,

Keith

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Keith Parks
Graphic Designer/Web Designer
Student Affairs Communications Services
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-7444
(619) 594-1046
mailto:kparks@mail.sdsu.edu
http://www.sa.sdsu.edu/communications

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