Async Loading of Templates in Backbone

window.loadTmpl = (function () {

 var templates = {}, temps, buildObj, getTemplate;

 $.get('templates/templates.html', function(html) {
 buildObj( html );
 });

 buildObj = function (html) {
 temps = $( html ).children('script');
 $.each( temps, function (index, template) {
 templates[template.id] = template.innerHTML.trim();
 });
 };

 getTemplate = function (temp) {
 return ( temp in templates ) ? templates[temp] : null;
 };

 return getTemplate;
}());

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