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"This page ( http://cdnjs.com/ ) is currently offline. However, because the site uses CloudFlare's Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site." Well, that's hardly comforting.
"This page ( http://cdnjs.com/ ) is currently offline. However, because the site uses CloudFlare's Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site." Well, that's hardly comforting.
FWIW, the libraries they host still seem to be getting served normally, so that’s a good thing.
How do I know their .js files won't expire out of the CloudFlare cache before the site comes up, for example?
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.
This seems to work well for me.
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Unfortunately he is in vast minority. Only when you start using NoScript or generally paying more attention to your browser's status bar do you start to realise the scale of the ridiculousness.
If I ever ran a media site, I'd redirect noscript users to this: "We love that you've come to value the great material we provide, but we make money off of advertizers. If you run noscript, that's great! We totally support noscript options for those who purchase a subscription plan."
This saves a lot of requests and waiting time between page loads (i.e. the first page is always slower, but subsequent page loads take almost no time because there're very few (or even just 1) requests needed to make.)
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If I ever ran a media site, I'd redirect noscript users to this: "We love that you've come to value the great material we provide, but we make money off of advertizers. If you run noscript, that's great! We totally support noscript options for those who purchase a subscription plan."
Subscriptions would not support the development costs of that.
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How does using CDNs make you distrust a website? If someone is loading jquery.min.js from Google shouldn't you trust it more ?
When I have see that a webpage has 20 or more scripts attached to it from domains differing from the one website I am visiting, I do by default assume they are tracking scripts from advertisers or facebook or similar ilk. If a website needs scripts, I expect the website to serve it from a domain which belongs to it. For most sites I visit there are at least 30, sometimes 50 scripts from various sites and domains tryi…
Yes, I would be shocked to be browsing the web circa 1995. Which is why I use a modern browser that supports modern technologies. I also use Ghostery with a whitelist to block tracking. That way, sites work like they should and I can browse this decade's Internet without having to go on forums and let everyone know I'm important and I'm special and every web app should work on Lynx because I said so.
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When I have see that a webpage has 20 or more scripts attached to it from domains differing from the one website I am visiting, I do by default assume they are tracking scripts from advertisers or facebook or similar ilk. If a website needs scripts, I expect the website to serve it from a domain which belongs to it. For most sites I visit there are at least 30, sometimes 50 scripts from various sites and domains tryi…
Install ScriptNo in Chrome (or similar for Firefox). You will be shocked by the difference. Yes, I would be shocked to be browsing the web circa 1995. Which is why I use a modern browser that supports modern technologies. I also use Ghostery with a whitelist to block tracking. That way, sites work like they should and I can browse this decade's Internet without having to go on forums and let everyone know I'm importa…
I find that a perfectly reasonable attitude.
For every one of these CDNs you use, chances that people with scriptblockers will use your site goes down. 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.
Having that many disparat cdns is a net loss anyways by the time you do dns lookup on each one, you've lost the latency savings.
http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.0/jquery-1.... - ok
http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery-1.... - 404