Prefetching JavaScript (or anything) with jQuery

While users are logging into a web site, I thought why not prefetch some JavaScript files they'll be needing on the next page?

I could load them with Ajax and this will be invisible to users (see the Even Faster Web Sites talk by Steven Souders, and his discussion of browser busy indicators).

The following seems to work, prefetching 2 files in parallel:

(function($) {
 $.ajax({ url:"/js/file1.js", cache:true, dataType:"text" });
 $.ajax({ url:"/js/file2.js", cache:true, dataType:"text" });
})(jQuery);

The 'text' dataType means jQuery won't try to evaluate the JavaScript it fetches. The 'cache' parameter defaults to 'true', but I prefer adding it.

I tested several browsers with a proxy, and the JavaScript files are cached - cool! I presume this technique would work with any resource, not just JS.