What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a content delivery network (CDN)? The disadvantages may be that it costs money, and it adds a bit of complexity to your deployment procedures. The main advantage is an increase in the speed with which the content is delivered to the users. When to use a CDN? … Read more
Found it! http://www.cdnjs.com/libraries/prettify <script src=”http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prettify/r298/run_prettify.js” type=”text/javascript”></script> <link href=”http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prettify/r298/prettify.css” type=”text/css”> Update: https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/issues/695 (see bottom of page)
Checkout cdnjs.com http://cdnjs.com/libraries/json2/ Might also be worth investigating Json3 http://cdnjs.com/libraries/json3/ UPDATE: Some of the information was out of date, changed to better links.
With the recent release of bootstrap 3, and the glyphicons being merged back to the main Bootstrap repo, Bootstrap CDN is now serving the complete Bootstrap 3.0 css including Glyphicons. The Bootstrap css reference is all you need to include: Glyphicons and its dependencies are on relative paths on the CDN site and are referenced … Read more
I always use the CDN (Content Delivery Network) from Google. But just in case it’s offline: <script src=”http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js”></script> <script>!window.jQuery && document.write(‘<script src=”jquery-1.4.2.min.js”><\/script>’)</script> Grab Google CDN’s jQuery and fallback to local if necessary Edit: If you don’t need to support IE6 and your site has partial https usage you can remove the http as well: <script … Read more
The great service RawGit was already mentioned, but I’ll throw another into the ring: GitCDN.link Benefits: Lets you link to specific commits, as well as auto-get the latest (aka master) Incurs no damage from high traffic volumes; RawGit asks that it’s dev.rawgit.com links be only used during development, where as GitCDN give you access to … Read more
The value of a CDN lies in the likelihood of the user having already visited another site calling that same file from that CDN, and becomes increasingly valuable depending on the size of the file. The likelihood of this being the case increases with the ubiquity of the file being requested and the popularity of … Read more
One could use onerror for that: <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”cdn.css” onerror=”this.onerror=null;this.href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7383163/local.css”;” /> The this.onerror=null; is to avoid endless loops in case the fallback it self is not available. But it could also be used to have multiple fallbacks. However, this currently only works in Firefox and Chrome. Update: Meanwhile, this seems to be supported by all … Read more