LW uses that domain to serve jQuery and Prototype. This is a recommended practice. The voting and posting code both rely on these libraries.
It sounds like what we want is failover: “if the user can’t get jQuery from Google, then give it to them from LessWrong.” Here is how to do it.
CDN failover is a best practice in general because it keeps the site working if Google ever goes down.
LW uses that domain to serve jQuery and Prototype. This is a recommended practice. The voting and posting code both rely on these libraries.
It sounds like what we want is failover: “if the user can’t get jQuery from Google, then give it to them from LessWrong.” Here is how to do it.
CDN failover is a best practice in general because it keeps the site working if Google ever goes down.