Isn't that one of the reasons why you are supposed to load your favorite JS libraries from a content delivery network? That way they get cached across multiple applications, but since you can refer to a particularly version you can upgrade at your liking.
Peter Michael Kimsal wrote: > Bundled doesn't mean that they could not be upgraded. Pre-loaded > might be a better term, but I didn't think people would misinterpret > bundled. If FF3 comes bundled with my Linux distro, that doesn't mean > that I can't upgrade to FF4 when it comes out, it just saves me the > time and hassle of installing it in the first place. > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Dominic Mitchell > <d...@happygiraffe.net <mailto:d...@happygiraffe.net>> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:57:10AM -0400, Michael Kimsal wrote: > > I think that may have been misunderstood. I'm suggesting that > browser > > makers might actually bundle the javascript libraries with the > browser > > directly, such that no downloading of anything extra (other than > your app's > > js code) would be required. That would (or will?) be one more > strike > > against external RIA tech. "YUI is already bundled with FF4" or > something > > like that would cause a much bigger uptake in JS-based apps. > > So you'd like the browsers to become like Java's standard library -- > stuck with old out of date things that can't be removed for backwards > compatibility reasons? > > Much more useful is to use something like Gears to store all needed > scripts locally. Check out wordpress' "turbo" option sometime. > That at > least gets you over the performance / reliability hump. > > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/gears/ > > -Dom > > > > > > -- > Michael Kimsal > http://jsmag.com - for javascript developers > http://groovymag.com - for groovy developers > 919.827.4724 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
