Strange delay between scripts in IE8 about labjs HOT 4 CLOSED

1. You should always have at least an empty .wait() at the end of a chain, even if you have no logic to have it perform.
2. Are you saying there's a 50ms delay before LABjs starts, or are you saying that each script starts 50ms after the one before it?

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just added the .wait()
im saying that there is ~50ms delay between the start of each script after the one before it has started.
<script type="text/javascript">
var asyncjsscripts = [];
asyncjsscripts.push('http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1298421702/build/system/embed.js');
asyncjsscripts.push('http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js');
asyncjsscripts.push('http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js');
asyncjsscripts.push('http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1');
asyncjsscripts.push('http://static.poptattle.com/js/trafficpace.js');
asyncjsscripts.push('http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1298421702/build/system/count.js');
</script>
I use the async snippet from https://gist.github.com/603980
my function f() from line 5 reads as:-
function f(){
$LAB.script(asyncjsscripts).wait();
}

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110228_4D_3bb68ed39c46b859b9a84778f4c530a9/5/details/ (see #8 to #13)

Internet Explorer 7(and 9) does not have this issue, they start downloading as soon as a download slot is available in the browser.

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I don't really have an answer. There's no artificial delays inside of LABjs. It sounds possibly like a bug or network connection timing issue in IE8, especially since other browsers/versions don't exhibit the problem.

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Thanks for your replies. On poking further it looks like a bug in webpagetest.org...
ive posted it here http://www.webpagetest.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=558

Basically the tcpdump shows that the requests are made instantly as expected.. so its not a LABjs issue..

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