Provides methods for the dynamic loading and management of JavaScript, CSS, and image files.

Injects a script tag into the head section of the document, pointing to the src specified.

var myScript = Asset.javascript(source[, properties]);

1. source - (string) The location of the JavaScript file to load.
2. properties - (object, optional) Additional attributes to be included into the script Element; this is the same as the second argument you might pass to including the Element constructor with the exception of Events (see note)

• (element) A new script Element.

var myScript = Asset.javascript('/scripts/myScript.js', {
    id: 'myScript',
    events: {
        load: function(){
            alert('myScript.js is loaded!'); 
        }
    }
});

• WARNING: DO NOT use addEvent for load on the returned element, give it as onLoad in the properties argument.

Injects a css file in the page.

var myCSS = Asset.css(source[, properties]);

1. source - (string) The path of the CSS file.
2. properties - (object) Some additional attributes you might want to add to the link Element; this is the same as the second argument you might pass to including the Element constructor. For instance you might specify an onLoad event or perhaps an id.

• (element) A new link Element.

var myCSS = Asset.css('/css/myStyle.css', {id: 'myStyle', title: 'myStyle'});

• WARNING: DO NOT use addEvent for load on the returned element, give it as onLoad in the properties argument.

Preloads an image and returns the img element.

var myImage = Asset.image(source[, properties]);

1. source - (string) The path of the image file.
2. properties - (object) Some additional attributes you might want to add to the img Element including the onLoad/onError/onAbort events.

• (element) A new HTML img Element.

var myImage = Asset.image('/images/myImage.png', {
    id: 'myImage',
    title: 'myImage',
    onLoad: myFunction
});

• Does not inject the image into the page.
• WARNING: DO NOT use addEvent for load/error/abort on the returned element, give them as onLoad/onError/onAbort in the properties argument.

Preloads an array of images (as strings) and returns an array of img elements. does not inject them to the page.

var myImages = Asset.images(source[, options]);

1. sources - (mixed) An array or a string, of the paths of the image files.
2. options - (object, optional) See below.

• properties - (object) Some additional attributes for all the images (same as the second argument you might pass to Asset.image).
• onComplete/onProgress/onError - (functions) See events below.

• (function) Executes when all image files are loaded.

onComplete()

• (function) Executes when one image file is loaded.

onProgress(counter, index)

1. counter - (number) The number of loaded images.
2. index - (number) The index of the loaded image.

• (function) Executes when one image file fails to load.

onError(counter, index)

• (array) An Elements collection.

var myImages = Asset.images(['/images/myImage.png', '/images/myImage2.gif'], {
    onComplete: function(){
        alert('All images loaded!');
    }
});