External JS scripts from yahoo...

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Hi:

It looks like some of the widgets being used by BB make references to external JS scripts hosted by Yahoo. Is this correct? If so, for a slider it seems that it is forcing a lot of external calls - over 50 of them actually. Does that seem right?

Thanks very much!

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Also, are you y any chance hard referencing http://schema.org/imageobject or http://gmpg.org/dfn/11? These are all appearing in the middle of my HTTPS pages thus throwing up mixed-mode and similar errors. I’m not sure if that is the BB plugin or something else I am using but it sure looks like BB.

Thanks very much!

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Hey Nigel,

That doesn’t sound right. What kind of slider were you using? Do you mind sharing the URL of the site so we can take a look?

Regarding the scheme.org references, I’ll assign another member of the team to assist you.

Ben

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Hey Nigel,

Right, our Slideshow module and background uses the YUI compressor. You can read more about it on github(link below).
http://yui.github.io/yuicompressor/

I’ve already assigned another member of the team here so they can assist you with the schema.org as well as the YUI compressor. :slight_smile:

Ben

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Hi Ben:

Is there any way to modify the BB plugin so that we aren’t dependent on external sites? It is almost impossible to optimize pages with that many external scripts.

Thanks very much!

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Hi Nigel,

The slideshow module is actually built using the YUI3 library, so it isn’t possible to make it independent of that. We originally built that slideshow for another platform that uses YUI3, and it’s an extremely involved piece of code, so it didn’t make sense to recreate the wheel for Beaver Builder. The YUI3 scripts that you are seeing do load asynchronously (only the seed file is in the markup), so there shouldn’t be any affect to your page load time.

My only suggestion to get rid of the YUI3 stuff if that’s an absolute must is to use another slideshow plugin within Beaver Builder instead of the built-in slideshow.

Thanks,
Justin

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Hi Nigel,

Regarding the schema.org stuff, can you provide an example of a page that is having that issue. We do use schema.org markup, but I’ve never seen it cause mixed content issues.

Thanks,
Justin

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Thanks, Nigel. I’m not seeing any mixed content errors on that page in Chrome, it’s giving me the green lock icon.

We are using http://schema.org/imageobject but just as the recommended schema attributes like so…

itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"

That shouldn’t be causing any mixed content errors. We’re not referencing http://gmpg.org/dfn/11 anywhere. Have you tried disabling all plugins to see if there is one that is causing the issues?

Let me know.

Justin

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Hi Justin:

Thanks for the quick response. Maybe I am having browser related issues. I’ll try this then on a different machine to see if the mixed-content stuff goes away. Maybe its just another weird thing with the latest chrome browser :confused: I probably should have been more thorough in checking browser specific issues before posting about this and mixing up topics in a thread.

Thanks.

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Hi Nigel,

No problem. Let me know what you find out.

Justin