I was surprised to today to discover that my site was running much
slower than usual (3 to 4 times slower!). Most of the delay was spent
with the message 'waiting for jqueryui.com'. This really freaked me
out. First of all what gives the jquery folks the right to ping their
site from their code? Second of all, if they're going to do that
they'd better make sure that the site they are pinging is super fast.
Can anybody enlighten me as to what is going on here? Better yet, how
can I remove that code from my jquery library? I can't afford to have
this kind of performance hit due to uncontrollable 'features' like
this in my code. And if I'm legally bound to keep that code in the
library please advise me so that I can go back to Prototype. Totally
unacceptable!
