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That's pretty awesome! I've always wondered why popular css grids weren't also CDN'd. Bootstrap, 960, etc, etc - it makes great sense to have many of these things cached across 100s of sites 1 time - instead of 100 times. Modify the cdn version in a seperate style sheet afterwards.
The same people who are doing the cdnjs have been planning do a CSS one as well, https://github.com/cdnjs/cdncss
Who pays for this ? How do I know you're not going to replace some of that javascript with malicious content ?
Cloudflare pays for this. They've been sponsoring cdnjs for around a year now. As for the security of our system, all javascript files are verified against official sources before going on the cdn. Additionally, we have many library maintainers submitting updates to their own libraries. Beyond that the only question remaining is our personal integrity. Like any relationship with a third party, you're going to have to…
I'm wondering what is the performance increase delivered by cloudflare. I've heard many mixed opinions and I'm at the interesection where I have to decide whether I'm using them or others.
btw - kudos to Cloudflare for sponsoring this - seems like a great way to put yourself in front of developers.
Who in this world does NOT afford to host a few small files nowadays?
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Cloudflare pays for this. They've been sponsoring cdnjs for around a year now. As for the security of our system, all javascript files are verified against official sources before going on the cdn. Additionally, we have many library maintainers submitting updates to their own libraries. Beyond that the only question remaining is our personal integrity. Like any relationship with a third party, you're going to have to…
I assume you are the creator of cdnjs - what are your relation with cloudflare beyond just the sponsorship? Are you working for them? Do you advise them? I'm wondering what is the performance increase delivered by cloudflare. I've heard many mixed opinions and I'm at the interesection where I have to decide whether I'm using them or others. btw - kudos to Cloudflare for sponsoring this - seems like a great way to put…
http://blog.cloudflare.com/cdnjs-community-moderated-javascr... https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/cdnjs
As for Cloudflare's speed, you can see cdnjs's average ping time as measured by pingdom here: http://stats.pingdom.com/4jg86a2wqei0/362854
Ok, I'm not a developer and I'm probably missing the big picture or smth; my question: - All this fuss is about hosting a few text files none bigger than several KB?? Who in this world does NOT afford to host a few small files nowadays?
Ok, I'm not a developer and I'm probably missing the big picture or smth; my question: - All this fuss is about hosting a few text files none bigger than several KB?? Who in this world does NOT afford to host a few small files nowadays?
When I see that a site tries to resolve scripts from 50 domains, for what should really just be static HTML, I generally leave.
So please. Don't use CDNs. If you want people to trust you, host your own damn stuff on your own domain.
Ok, I'm not a developer and I'm probably missing the big picture or smth; my question: - All this fuss is about hosting a few text files none bigger than several KB?? Who in this world does NOT afford to host a few small files nowadays?
The idea is that users wouldn't have to download the same jquery or whatever script over and over for every site they visit. It makes less sense when it comes to not-so-popular script files, but I guess there's a convenience factor too.