Seems like a graceful failure -- jQuery is still responding to calls. For anyone that this freaks out and wonders how they can utilize the googleapis service i

Seems like a graceful failure -- jQuery is still responding to calls. For anyone that this freaks out and wonders how they can utilize the googleapis service in the future but have a fallback incase things fall apart, here is a fun little snippet that I got from the HTML5 boilerplate[1] project to help: <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js"></script> <script>!window.jQuery && document.write(unescape('%3Cscript src="/public/scripts/libs/jquery-1.4.4.min.js"%3E%3C/script%3E'))</script> More or less, you try the Google CDN, then you try and execute your own script right after that checks for the existence of an API-provided element, if it's not there then the CDN failed and you load it directly from your own server. TIP: You can use "!jQuery.ui" as the check for jQuery-UI if you are using that. The first time I saw this approach I thought "well that's ugly", but it's the 0.01% of the time that it gets you out of a bind that I think makes it worth it. Q: Does anyone happen to know if scripts are loaded serially in all browsers? Is there ever a scenario where the 2nd script executes before the 1st script tag loads from the CDN and inits the jQuery object? [1] http://html5boilerplate.com/ http://html5boilerplate.com/