Comments on: Finally a chance to reflect on the Ajax Libraries API / Google CDN JavaScript library hosting

By: wyszukiwarka mp3

wyszukiwarka mp3 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:12:57 +0000

I like this blog so much!

By: Statusy GG, Opisy na GG

Statusy GG, Opisy na GG — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:37:08 +0000

Projects in AJAX, such as jQuery is a very useful and better from the same script in PHP.

By: cytaty

cytaty — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:34:52 +0000

This is tool is really very helpful. Ajax is my favorite language!

By: Stephen Sykes

Stephen Sykes — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:23:31 +0000

To answer my own comment, the short forms of the urls (without a fully specified version number) should be avoided for this reason. Using http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.0.2/prototype.js works correctly, and there is no additional query to google after it is loaded the first time.

By: Stephen Sykes

Stephen Sykes — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:40:12 +0000

Hum, the Safari activity window shows that when loading our pages Safari is contacting google for each javascript file on every single page load. This is not ideal.

$ curl -i http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1/prototype.js

Last-Modified: Sat, 24 May 2008 00:39:29 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-javascript
Expires: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:17:24 GMT
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:17:24 GMT
Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Server: GFE/1.3

Could this be due must-revalidate in the Cache-Control header?

By: Richard Monson-Haefel

Richard Monson-Haefel — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:10:45 +0000

I think the Google Ajax Library APIs are great for Ajax developers, but I had to LOL when I heard you say you were hoping to get browser vendors to ship them. There is no way that Microsoft, which still owns most of the browser market today, is going to cooperate with Google to ship the Ajax Library APIs with their IE browser. None.

Anyway, providing a single cached repository for the hundreds of Ajax APIs is a good thing, but it really doesn’t solve the problem that there are simply too many Ajax libraries (240 – 300 by my count) to maintain a stable ecosystem. Hopefully the number of libraries will diminish over time.

Richard Monson-Haefel
VP of Developer Relations
Curl, Inc.

By: Clint Ecker

Clint Ecker — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:04:06 +0000

Well I got it because primarily I’m a web developer and secondarily a tech journalist :D When Ars needs someone to speak to something this technical, I cover that for them. Hopefully I’ll be able to cover this sort of stuff more and more often in the coming months :)

Great work on the project, btw. I hope to make great use of all this stuff in upcoming projects!

By: Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:13:49 +0000

I am very excited about this too, especially if there was a way for the browser manufacturers to integrate it. MS isn’t going to use a Google CDN, though, so I’m hopeful some standard might emerge to keep the repo location flexible, while keeping it a simple one-liner for the JS developer.

By: timothy

timothy — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:03:48 +0000

Looking at my own project, I see that it’s not just jQuery that I want you guys to host, but all the myriad jQuery plugins and addons. Is that coming as well?