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I'm still awaiting the day when the Google CDN version of JQuery goes down.

• zachallia 15y ago
  doomsday
• Encryptor 15y ago
  we frequently experience problems downloading scripts from google's CDN, which is why we switched to using local files.
• simonsarris 15y ago
  In case others are wondering, its quite easy to make a "fallback" when using CDN scripts. For instance: <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.js"></script> <script>window.jQuery || document.write("<script src='js/libs/jquery-1.6.4.min.js'></script>")</script> Could save all such sites that rely on Google CDN jQuery
• nbpoole 15y ago
  It happened almost a year ago! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398095 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398095
• FlemishBeeCycle 15y ago
  That's been one of my concerns, the best way to circumvent that issue is to do something like the following: <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script>window.jQuery || document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='/path/to/jquery.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));</script> This way it will fallback to a local copy if Google's goes down. [Edit: simonsarris replied with something similar as I was replying, however, the advantage of using unescape is that you don't get invalid markup warnings]