// bootstrap.js /* Bootstrap should be linked into any document whose scripts (a) share code with those of other documents, or (b) wish to load other scripts only when actually needed. If a document's scripting needs are met with a single script file, then Bootstrap is unnecessary. But often a Web author has a library of commonly used Javascript routines, the use of which requires either duplication in each client script, server-side or preprocessed script generation (which makes the duplication acceptable, because the source remains unique), or a means of importing scripts at runtime. The first is an unacceptable and unmaintainable coding practice, and the second adds a compile phase to the test cycle in the case of preprocessing and rules out local testing entirely in the case of server-side generation. Bootstrap implements the third. */ /* Script-loading terminology Scripts are *loaded* (acquired by the browser given a URL reference) if external, and then *run*, during which the script is executed by the Javascript interpreter. (We are not considering inline scripts either in