My question would rather be "how does it make sense to rely on an outside source for this stuff?". Really, website developers are introducing another, completel

My question would rather be "how does it make sense to rely on an outside source for this stuff?". Really, website developers are introducing another, completely unnecessary point of failure if they hotlink an external jQuery version. It's not such a huge file either, I can't imagine what benefits people think this has. Is it so the first page loads a fraction of a second faster (maybe)?