Chrome for me has always been a reference on web standards, unfortunately the defer isn't supported and IE supports it since version 5.5. Why ?
js.js
document.getElementById ("hi").innerHTML = "Hi :)";
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset = "utf-8">
<script defer="defer" src="js.js"></script>
<title>Hi</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="hi"></div>
</body>
</html>