[Labs-l] [Labs-announce] [Tools] Announcing cdnjs mirror for toollabs

[Ricordisamoa]

Il 01/05/2015 10:02, Ricordisamoa ha scritto:
> Thank you SO MUCH!
> Out of curiosity, how does it compare to the 'old' static? Is the 
> latter supposed to be deprecated at some point?

Any answers to this question?

> And what about non-iconic fonts? Are there any chances for them in cdnjs?

And to this one? O:-)

> And why is the project called 'cdnjs-index' instead of just 'cdnjs'?
> Sorry for the questions ;)
>
> Il 25/04/2015 06:02, Yuvi Panda ha scritto:
>> Hello!
>>
>> The Privacy Policy on Tool Labs means you can't load external
>> resources for JS / CSS, which is kind of a pain – normally you would
>> use something like Google's CDN or cdnjs to load common JS libraries.
>> With toollabs you had to provide this yourself. Ireas created the
>> "static" project https://tools.wmflabs.org/static/ to centralise this
>> effort. To improve load and performance we also created the
>> https://tools-static.wmflabs.org server as cookieless and better
>> cached domain to serve static assets from.
>>
>> Now there exists https://tools.wmflabs.org/cdnjs/, which is a mirror
>> of https://cdnjs.com. This allows you to easily include a wide variety
>> of CSS / JS libraries in a fast, friendly and privacy policy compliant
>> way :) We hope the cdnjs tool (which makes use of tools-static) will
>> make it easy to provide static assets by taking away the maintenance
>> overhead of registering new libraries and keeping up with new
>> releases.
>>
>> This should be faster than serving it out of your tool, since it is
>> puppetized and run directly from local file system (rather than NFS).
>> Appropriate cache headers are set too. It keeps older versions around
>> forever as well. You can add your favorite libraries (if they aren't
>> there already) by following the cdjs process. [1]
>>
>> Thanks to the cdnjs community for maintaining this in an open, easy to
>> mirror way, Ori Livneh for the original idea, and Krinkle for support.
>>
>> [1] 
>> https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs#adding-a-new-or-updating-an-existing-library
>> [2] Just clone https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs and set up an index
>> generator 
>> (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/labs/tools/cdnjs-index)!
>>
>>
>
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