Comments on: Serve JavaScript Frameworks Faster with the Google AJAX Libraries API

By: Isquaretechnologies.com

Isquaretechnologies.com — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:15:10 +0000

wihout https support, it’s fairly useless for serious websites. (and neither google, nor Y! provide SSL support for their mapping APIs either)

By: dunyadata

dunyadata — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:46:14 +0000

thank

By: Dymok

Dymok — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:10:34 +0000

Also, if you think libs from google have some extra code just download the same version from lib official site and make diff.

By: Dymok

Dymok — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:56:41 +0000

Why you need https for getting a lib?

By: mountainash

mountainash — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:17:14 +0000

What’s to stop Google adding some “extras” into script to track key presses or mouse movement? Or worse force AdWords into your site (they could do it at random).

By: MisterrMc

MisterrMc — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:07:25 +0000

Great idea but I agree, https support is a must. I don’t like the distribution concept so far either. The availability should be through a P2P structure (not direct from Google only) and/or some form of an auto-update (browsing independent) schedule – but that’s another topic.

By: spleecho

spleecho — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:23:31 +0000

no, google is not curing cancer with this, but it’s really awesome. whatever is done to speed things up on the web is welcome in my eyes. as a designer/developer, I can concentrate now more on the fun stuff and not worry about some of the other things as much :)

By: michael - ohio

michael - ohio — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:11:13 +0000

wihout https support, it’s fairly useless for serious websites. (and neither google, nor Y! provide SSL support for their mapping APIs either) – michael

By: chriscd

chriscd — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:57:15 +0000

Overall, seems helpful. And sure they have things in mind, but they are letting you use their servers.

By: atetlaw

atetlaw — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:46:43 +0000

Oh and I made a slight error, the documentation _does_ mention that the versioning feature works with direct URIs:

Note, these versioning semantics work the same way when using google.load and when using direct script urls.

By: atetlaw

atetlaw — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:44:15 +0000

@php_penguin, according to the doco, you can’t. You must at least specify a major version.

By: aldomatic

aldomatic — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:52:44 +0000

This is awesome, Google is so nice.. yet evil in some ways hehe :)

By: logic_earth

logic_earth — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:07:15 +0000

@php_penguin
That isn’t too safe, you wouldn’t want to update a library/framework without first testing to make sure nothing has gone AWOL.

But if you want to live on the edge you are going have to make your own system because google doesn’t seem to have such a thing :P

By: php_penguin

php_penguin — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:05:20 +0000

Can you maybe post a sample URL for the latest regardless of version?

Eg with jQuery, if it goes to 2.0.0 (probably a year away) I might want my script to use it regardless.

By: cranial-bore

cranial-bore — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:32:17 +0000

Very nice. I know Yahoo cop quite a bandwidth bill by hosting the YUI files the way they do, but I guess for the owners of YouTube anything else is totally insignificant.

By: s.stok

s.stok — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:23:18 +0000

Looks very nice :)
Only there is no support for https (yet) so secured back-offices will get an warning or no content at all.

By: ionix5891

ionix5891 — Wed, 28 May 2008 07:54:35 +0000

so google now can datamine their access logs for more traffic data….

sigh yet another way for google to hoard data