diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 2276b4fac..0928b4bfb 100755
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ Version 1.1.11 work in progress
 - Enh: Added HTML5 history support on ajax requests on CGridView and CListView using History.js v1.7.2-r2 (https://github.com/balupton/history.js) from Benjamin Arthur Lupton (lightglitch)
 - Enh: Changed CldrCommand to use medium dateTimeFormat and updated 18n data using newest(6546) CLDR (tanakahisateru)
 - Enh: Added CErrorHandler::getHttpHeader() to send correct HTTP error codes (pgaultier)
+- Enh: CClientScript::$scriptFilePosition and CClientScript::$scriptPosition for controlling default $position values for registerScriptFile and registerScript (resurtm)
 - Chg #440: Upgraded JQuery UI to 1.8.20 (samdark)
 - Chg #497: Added log component and preloaded it in default console application config in order to properly log errors (samdark)
 - Chg: Upgraded jQuery to 1.7.2 (samdark)
diff --git a/framework/web/CClientScript.php b/framework/web/CClientScript.php
index 473d722cf..eeeb3caad 100644
--- a/framework/web/CClientScript.php
+++ b/framework/web/CClientScript.php
@@ -160,6 +160,20 @@ class CClientScript extends CApplicationComponent
 	 * @since 1.1.3
 	 */
 	public $coreScriptPosition=self::POS_HEAD;
+	/**
+	 * @var integer Where the scripts registered using {@link registerScriptFile} will be inserted in the page.
+	 * This can be one of the CClientScript::POS_* constants.
+	 * Defaults to CClientScript::POS_HEAD.
+	 * @since 1.1.11
+	 */
+	public $scriptFilePosition=self::POS_HEAD;
+	/**
+	 * @var integer Where the scripts registered using {@link registerScript} will be inserted in the page.
+	 * This can be one of the CClientScript::POS_* constants.
+	 * Defaults to CClientScript::POS_READY.
+	 * @since 1.1.11
+	 */
+	public $scriptPosition=self::POS_READY;
 
 	private $_baseUrl;
 
@@ -577,8 +591,10 @@ class CClientScript extends CApplicationComponent
 	 * </ul>
 	 * @return CClientScript the CClientScript object itself (to support method chaining, available since version 1.1.5).
 	 */
-	public function registerScriptFile($url,$position=self::POS_HEAD)
+	public function registerScriptFile($url,$position=null)
 	{
+		if($position===null)
+			$position=$this->scriptFilePosition;
 		$this->hasScripts=true;
 		$this->scriptFiles[$position][$url]=$url;
 		$params=func_get_args();
@@ -600,8 +616,10 @@ class CClientScript extends CApplicationComponent
 	 * </ul>
 	 * @return CClientScript the CClientScript object itself (to support method chaining, available since version 1.1.5).
 	 */
-	public function registerScript($id,$script,$position=self::POS_READY)
+	public function registerScript($id,$script,$position=null)
 	{
+		if($position===null)
+			$position=$this->scriptPosition;
 		$this->hasScripts=true;
 		$this->scripts[$position][$id]=$script;
 		if($position===self::POS_READY || $position===self::POS_LOAD)