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Google to host Web UI javascript libraries. Appcelerator too??

This is a great idea! I don’t want to get into all the technical reasons for it, but for a host of reasons, I think it’s a great idea for Google to host the most popular script libraries like script.aculo.us, Prototype, jQuery and Dojo. The only other one I really want to see there is Appcelerator. Hmm… I wonder if Jeff Haynie agrees?

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This entry was written by Alister Cameron and posted on 30 May 2008 at 4:36 pm and tagged: Ajax, appcelerator, caching, dhtml, dojo, Google, hosting, http caching, javascript libraries, jeff haynie, jquery, script libraries, script.aculo.us. // Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. // Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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jeff haynie

Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago // Permalink

I agree and working on it.
Nathan Bowers

Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago // Permalink

Why is this a good idea? If you’re competent to use JS libraries you should be competent to upload them to your own site. Is this some play for Google to learn more about traffic trends or something?
Rich

Posted 5 months, 1 week ago // Permalink

It’s not a bad idea, if people want to use it, they can but no-one’s forcing them to.

Alister - you should really remove the “u comment i follow” logo since you don’t. How does no-following “reward commenters (sic)” exactly?
Alister Cameron

Posted 5 months, 1 week ago // Permalink

Thanks Rich. I turned the plugin off that made no-follows “follows” only on the 12th… after spending the most of an hour with a commenter on Skype, trying to work out why his comment wasn’t showing up. Turns out the plugin has a bad regular expression or something and was killing the display of his comment, in its entirety. I must get a new plugin that does that, so thanks for the reminder.

-A
Allan Mulali

Posted 5 months, 1 week ago // Permalink

This is a great idea. I like it. Personally I write turorials for javascript.
Alister Cameron

Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago // Permalink

Nathan,

The point is caching. It means someone comes to your site and there’s every likelihood that they’ve already got at least those JS lib files cached already, from whenever they last visited any other site that uses those same files.

Sure, it’s got some sort of a point, for Google, selfishly, perhaps, but thinking just in terms of caching, I think it’s great.

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