[geeklog-devel] Interesting reading ...

[Blaine Lang]

Likely Yahoo would not allow Google to host the YUI libraries albeit 
Yahoo has a very liberal licensing strategy but it still may be 
political as to why Google did not announce with YUI support from the 
outset. I have been using the YUI libraries on projects for the past 2 
years and it's a very impressive library that is growing every few 
months. I'd like to see Google host the EXT library as we use that on 
projects and my latest plugin that used EXT extensively was a bit of a 
hog initially loading 1Meg of JS.

Some of the other libraries have neat features specially jquery but one 
has to be careful loading too many of these libraries and I've been very 
pleased with the decision to use YUI. It's also beneficial that YUI has 
compressed min versions of their libraries and hosting on their CDN 
really can reduce any noticeable initial load. Additionally, they have a 
feature to load libraries on page load so their is even less or no 
initial page render delay.

Blaine

Mark Howard wrote:
> :^)
>
> I think the primary difference here is that Google is offering to host
> multiple libraries, even libraries not of their creation - except of course
> YUI, a product of their competitor.  That coupled with Google's slightly
> more extensive hosting infrastructure might count this as a one-up (don't
> get me wrong - I'm not a Google stockholder, employee or irrational zealot).
>
> Anyway - not surprising that they took the opportunity to try to best YaHoo
> at it's own game, and I guess it's win-win, and it's just a matter of
> determining the correct source based upon what libraries you have selected
> for your use.
>
> -Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net
> [mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] On Behalf Of Blaine Lang
> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 5:28 PM
> To: Geeklog Development
> Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Interesting reading ...
>
> Hi Howard,
>
> Noticed this earlier this week and is nice of google and noticed that 
> Yahoo was not on the list but that is likely because Yahoo announced 
> this service in early last year.
> It's nice because we can release our plugins without distributing these 
> libraries or requiring a user to copy/install the files.
>
> http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/02/22/free-yui-hosting
>
> Blaine
>
> Mark Howard wrote:
>   
>> As long as this were used with a local configuration opt-out, the 
>> following would seem to be a useful thing to consider as we head 
>> towards an expanded use of Ajax in the presentation layer .
>>
>>
>>     
> http://ajaxian.com/archives/announcing-ajax-libraries-api-speed-up-your-ajax
> -apps-with-googles-infrastructure
>   
>> -m
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