CSS JS Loader [Support Thread]

[DrByte]

I always avoid using the "CSS/JSS loader" plugin, because it's always made it harder to support or upgrade every site I've ever seen it on.

I've never found any legitimate reason for it to be needed, except that some plugins "require" it for completely unnecessary reasons.

Zen Cart loads JavaScript alphabetically. It has no ability to control library dependencies and therefore you'll get plugins loading before the main jQuery library or duplicate versions of jQuery loading. Our plugins that use jQuery require CSS JS Loader for this reason.

Given that they are loaded alphabetically it's quite easy to control load-order just by naming the files accordingly.
Plus, in v1.5.5 jQuery is loaded before any other jscript_* files, so that dependency is already taken care of, leaving very few other load-order issues that would need managing via filename.
Far simpler to manage in my experience.