As you might have heard, Google has joined the ranks of AOL and others with their newly released AJAX Libraries API. What does this mean for you as a developer? Well, Google will now provide hosting of various JS libraries. So, you get the power of Google to serve the file to your clients, so you can depend on their reliability and incredible speed.

This was just one of the several major announcements that were released at last weeks Google I/O developer conference that I was able to attend. Here is what they say:

The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader’s google.load() method, your application has high speed, globaly available access to a growing list of the most popular JavaScript open source libraries including:

Google works directly with the key stake holders for each library effort and accept the latest stable versions as they are released. Once we host a release of a given library, we are committed to hosting that release indefinitely.

Read more: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/

This entry was posted on Monday, June 2nd, 2008 at 2:09 pm.
Categories: Google, Javascript, Web2.0.

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