Google Provides Hosting for Popular Ajax Libraries

GoogleGoogle has created the Ajax Libraries API. Basically Google is calling it a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JS libraries. These libraries include:

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

If you use the Google JS API, you can do stuff like:

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<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
  // Load jQuery
  google.load("jquery", "1");
 
  // on page load complete, fire off a jQuery json-p query
  // against Google web search
  google.setOnLoadCallback(function() {
    $.getJSON("http://ajax.googleapis.com"+
    "/ajax/services/search/web?q=google&;v=1.0&;callback=?",
 
      // on search completion, process the results
      function (data) {
        if (data.responseDate.results &&
            data.responseDate.results.length>0) {
          renderResults(data.responseDate.results);
        }
      });
    });
</script>

Notice the dynamic loading of the jQuery library. Not a fan of the Google JS API? No worries, Google publishes the direct URLs for all the various javascript library files including minimized and full versions.

Resources

AJAX Libraries API
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/

Documentation
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation/index.html

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