Under The Bridge

Now this is interesting: Google is now providing a CDN service for certain JavaScript libraries, called ”Google Ajax Libraries API.” So now instead of dealing with libraries yourself, you can just have Google

• Manage the hosting, caching, and versioning/bugfixes
• Serve up a minified version, if one is officially supported
• Serve the same version to anyone else using it

So that’s helpful to anyone writing web pages by reducing code management hassle, but on the bandwidth-limited iPhone browsing over cell networks (3G or not) that last one is a really compelling reason to get on board, since sharing caching with any other page that happens to use that library as well is going to make the user’s experience noticeably better no doubt. Here’s the list of libraries they support right off:

• jQuery
• prototype
• script.aculo.us
• MooTools
• dojo

I’d say that narrows right down the list of AJAX libraries we’re even going to consider learning!

h/t: Slashdot!