reintroducing a variant of kit's in-order script loading fix.

lib/browser.js

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   if (typeof window === "undefined" || window === null) {
     return;
   }
-  CoffeeScript.load = function(url, options) {
+  CoffeeScript.load = function(url, callback) {
     var xhr;
     xhr = new (window.ActiveXObject || XMLHttpRequest)('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');
     xhr.open('GET', url, true);
@@ -24,24 +24,46 @@
     }
     xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
       if (xhr.readyState === 4) {
-        return CoffeeScript.run(xhr.responseText, options);
+        if (xhr.status === 200) {
+          CoffeeScript.run(xhr.responseText);
+        } else {
+          throw new Error("Could not load " + url);
+        }
+        if (callback) {
+          return callback();
+        }
       }
     };
     return xhr.send(null);
   };
   runScripts = function() {
-    var script, _i, _len, _ref;
-    _ref = document.getElementsByTagName('script');
-    for (_i = 0, _len = _ref.length; _i < _len; _i++) {
-      script = _ref[_i];
-      if (script.type === 'text/coffeescript') {
-        if (script.src) {
-          CoffeeScript.load(script.src);
-        } else {
-          CoffeeScript.run(script.innerHTML);
+    var coffees, execute, index, length, s, scripts;
+    scripts = document.getElementsByTagName('script');
+    coffees = (function() {
+      var _i, _len, _results;
+      _results = [];
+      for (_i = 0, _len = scripts.length; _i < _len; _i++) {
+        s = scripts[_i];
+        if (s.type === 'text/coffeescript') {
+          _results.push(s);
         }
       }
-    }
+      return _results;
+    })();
+    index = 0;
+    length = coffees.length;
+    (execute = function() {
+      var script;
+      script = coffees[index++];
+      if ((script != null ? script.type : void 0) === 'text/coffeescript') {
+        if (script.src) {
+          return CoffeeScript.load(script.src, execute);
+        } else {
+          CoffeeScript.run(script.innerHTML);
+          return execute();
+        }
+      }
+    })();
     return null;
   };
   if (window.addEventListener) {

src/browser.coffee

@@ -16,24 +16,35 @@ CoffeeScript.run = (code, options = {}) ->
 return unless window?
 
 # Load a remote script from the current domain via XHR.
-CoffeeScript.load = (url, options) ->
+CoffeeScript.load = (url, callback) ->
   xhr = new (window.ActiveXObject or XMLHttpRequest)('Microsoft.XMLHTTP')
   xhr.open 'GET', url, true
   xhr.overrideMimeType 'text/plain' if 'overrideMimeType' of xhr
   xhr.onreadystatechange = ->
-    CoffeeScript.run xhr.responseText, options if xhr.readyState is 4
+    if xhr.readyState is 4
+      if xhr.status is 200
+        CoffeeScript.run xhr.responseText 
+      else
+        throw new Error "Could not load #{url}"
+      callback() if callback
   xhr.send null
 
 # Activate CoffeeScript in the browser by having it compile and evaluate
 # all script tags with a content-type of `text/coffeescript`.
 # This happens on page load.
 runScripts = ->
-  for script in document.getElementsByTagName 'script'
-    if script.type is 'text/coffeescript'
+  scripts = document.getElementsByTagName 'script'
+  coffees = (s for s in scripts when s.type is 'text/coffeescript')
+  index = 0
+  length = coffees.length
+  do execute = ->
+    script = coffees[index++]
+    if script?.type is 'text/coffeescript'
       if script.src
-        CoffeeScript.load script.src
+        CoffeeScript.load script.src, execute
       else
         CoffeeScript.run script.innerHTML
+        execute()
   null
 
 # Listen for window load, both in browsers and in IE.