js hosted files, yahoo and now google
Posted by jonathan - 17/06/08 at 07:06:20 amI like the fact that major players in the game, yahoo and now google are hosting javascript files. They have the global presence and resources to ensure that copies of the same libraries are served most efficiently from a single network, zipped, compressed and closest to the user. Yahoo started this trend way back in February 2007, but most people still only think about this company as the content powerhouse it was at the dawn of web 1.0.
Google started hosting the more popular javascript libraries, jQuery, prototype, mooTools, dojo and scriptaculous late last month. While its great that they are hosting 3p scripts, the problem I have with google is their documentation. As a company providing developer support they fail miserably compared to yahoo and microsoft. In their Ajax Libraries API documentation, they encourage you to use the google.load() method but fail to mention that you will need to pull in this script, http://www.google.com/jsapi. I had to do a search on google.load in order to find a post on their blog which has the complete documentation. Not that I am the best writer, but when you are posting example code as the indians say, “do the needful”, and make sure to include the full example code.
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