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Frankly I'm surprised jquery even allowed this to begin with. Now there will be sites that rely on this tha break, some of which won't be fixed for ages (if eve
by cletus 16y ago
Frankly I'm surprised jquery even allowed this to begin with. Now there will be sites that rely on this tha break, some of which won't be fixed for ages (if ever).
I guess I shouldn't be but I'm still surprised people would even do this given that Google s offering the service for free. Hotlinking has always been antisocial.
- sudont 16y agoNever doubt the laziness of people, especially other developers. I'm actually more surprised that the site didn't either use Google's API to host the download, or provide a hotlink button right there.
- angrycoder 16y agoSome might be from laziness, but I would imagine most of the hotlinking is from ignorance.
- TorKlingberg 16y agoI guess it is both: Too lazy to find out the right way to do it.
- bigiain 16y agoAgreed. I'll bet a significant portion of it is coming from cut-n-pasted html where the users don't even realise they're using hotlinked javascript, and have probably never even heard of jquery (and, unfortunately, are spectacularly unlikely to hear about this change on jquery's hotlinking policy).
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- scorpion032 16y ago"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Hanlon's Razor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor