Isn't Google Gears also storing local copies of popular libraries? Hopefully that will be standard practice when HTML 5 comes along.
- ricardo On Feb 15, 10:04 pm, "Michael Geary" <m...@mg.to> wrote: > That's a neat idea; thanks for thinking about improving load time. > > We may actually have something a bit like that already. Google hosts jQuery > along with other JavaScript libraries: > > http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation/#jquery > > If you load jQuery from Google, e.g.: > > http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.1/jquery.min.js > > then when someone goes to your site, there's a chance that they have > previously visited another site using the same copy of jQuery - so your site > will use the copy already cached from that visit. The more sites use the > Google loader, the more likely this is to happen. > > -Mike > > > From: NewToJS > > > Hi... Am new to jQuery and the programming... I started a few > > days ago but found out how useful and easy is jQuery, and > > think its becoming, or better said... Has already become popular... > > > It might be soon, but think the best idea would be to make > > jQuery as a Browser plugin... Or should be like something > > already included in browers to get a faster navigation when > > comes the time to visit a site that actually uses jquery.. > > not by a lot, but think jquery will keep growing! > > > What you think guys?
