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It's interesting and slightly scary the CDN issue. Several months ago when there was an issue with Google's CDN, an awful lot of websites fell over as they neve

• zalew 14y ago
  especially when it's trivial to implement <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.0/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> if (typeof jQuery == 'undefined') { document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='/path_to_scripts/js/libs/jquery-1.8.0.min.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));} </script>
  • jfaucett 14y ago
    Is it really that big of a perf hit to just download the minified and use it in your source like all other libs? jq isn't that big of beast, plus if you have a large site its cached for every other page visit :)
    • zalew 14y ago
      > if you have a large site its cached for every other page visit until you modify your own js (not that rare and uncommon) and it's back new and shiny again. from the cdn, it's just already there sitting in the browser's cache. > Is it really that big of a perf hit maybe not, but if you had the option to wake up with your teeth already brushed, wouldn't you take it? :D
  • jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
    You don't need to use unescape in the fallback if(!jQuery)document.write('<script src="jquery.js"></scrip'+'t>');