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This solution fails when you need to insert the script more than once in a page. Instead, browsers really should provide scripts a means to retrieve the script element that they belong to.

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A comment on the article pointed out that since javascript execution is blocking, you can do that for synchronous javascript:

  scripts=document.elements.getElementByTagName('script')
  latest=scripts[scripts.length-1]

I wrote a small jQuery plugin around that idea ( at https://gist.github.com/435668/85466138a24814baef3ec6a73b7cc... )

This approach allows you to specify parameters as JSON. So data of arbitrary length can be passed without having to resort to some global variable.

It solves a problem I had where I needed to pass some template engine generated content into an otherwise static script.

Thanks for the tip :)

Right, but then you have to require that your script be loaded synchronously. And this is really just a hack to get around the fact that browsers don't provide a proper API.

You can use a static counter to get around that

Sorry, can you explain what you mean?

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