Javascript Execution Order In Ie6

Aren't Javascript blocks supposed to execute in the order that they are placed on the page? IE6 doesn't seem to follow that rule in some situations. My page basically looks like th

Solution 1:

i once had a problem very similar to the one you describe.

It happened only with a specific version of IE6. The JS was being gzipped by the web server and IE 6 executed my script before the JS, after it's been downloaded but before it's been unzipped... very strange....

it solved when i disabled gzip in my apache for IE6 requests. (don't know if you can do that) The alternative is to set a timer to check if MyObj is defined....

Solution 2:

The most likely explanation is that the first script is sometimes failing to load, due to something like the connection being dropped by the server, the server returning a 503 Service Unavailable error, or some similar reason.

Try running an HTTP debugger like Fiddler; then, when the error occurs, you can examine the HTTP request/response cycle to see what the problem was.