Encosia
encosia.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Encosia is a web developer's blog, mostly about jQuery, ASP.NET, and front-end performance such as CDN hosting and document-ready timing.
What HN saysCommenters cite it as a clear summary of why to use Google's CDN for jQuery, and for caching pitfalls with HTTPS.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Don’t let jQuery’s $(document).ready() slow you down2 people · 139 points · first shared 2010 · 22 comments on HN
- 2Why you should let Google host jQuery for you2 people · 76 points · first shared 2008 · 61 comments on HN
- 3Cripple the Google CDN’s caching with a single character2 people · 6 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 43 reasons why you should let Google host jQuery for you2 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 56,953 reasons why I still let Google host jQuery for me2 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 6Minesweeper wide2 people · first shared 2012
- 7JQuery 1.6.2 syntax error? You may be the victim of SEO.1 people · 257 points · first shared 2011 · 135 comments on HN
- 86,953 reasons why I still let Google host jQuery for me1 people · 122 points · first shared 2010 · 67 comments on HN
- 9How 30 seconds dropped my bounce rate by 78%1 people · 70 points · first shared 2010 · 28 comments on HN
- 10Cripple the Google CDN’s caching with a single character1 people · 30 points · first shared 2011 · 17 comments on HN
- 11A month with my Surface RT1 people · 13 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12Cooking the books is hard and doesn’t help anyone1 people · 9 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 13Understanding jQuery’s impact on Microsoft and ASP.NET1 people · 6 points · first shared 2010 · 5 comments on HN
- 14In JavaScript, curly brace placement matters: An example1 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 15A few weeks with the Microsoft Band1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
Encosia · 2015-04-18
My current desktop build is a fast i7[0] with a GTX 970, but I can't hear it at all right now. You can have great performance without fans or with large diameter fans that turn slowly and quietly under normal load. This is especially true with newer, more efficient hardware that draws less power and produces less heat.
[0] http://encosia.com/i/overclocked-4th-generation-i7-4790k/
pbhjpbhj · 2012-11-24
>Speaking of ads, here's a panorama of the entire app: http://encosia.com/i/minesweeper-wide/ . //
I don't get it, which app. It says minesweeper, where are the mines? Is this like the minesweeper starter app, did they feel interstitials were so loved on the web that they wanted to give people more of them?
Also, don't they have any designers at MS or is mis-alignment the new grid? Or perhaps there's some cunning reason [other than making it stand out more in the most annoying fashion] that the advert should not adhere to the grid of the rest of the content.
leeber · 2014-11-03
This sums it up nicely:
http://encosia.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-google-host-jquery-for…
mythz · 2011-11-20
Yes, Unfortunately this is a common misconception, and is why the Google closure library intentionally leaves this feature out (so people don't use it):
>>The short story is that we don't want to wait for DOMContentReady (or worse the load event) since it leads to bad user experience. The UI is not responsive until all the DOM has been loaded from the network. So the preferred way is to use inline scripts as soon as possible.
>>By intentionally leaving out DOMContentReady wrappers we have been able to prevent Google Apps to use on this anti pattern.
-- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/closure-library-discuss/G-7Ltd…
Also see:
http://encosia.com/dont-let-jquerys-document-ready-slow-you-down/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6026645/document-readyfunction-vs-s…
WickyNilliams · 2011-11-18
That is not a better approach, there are issues with client-side caching if all resources are served over HTTPS. See http://encosia.com/cripple-the-google-cdns-caching-with-a-single-chara…
csomar · 2009-06-27
if you grab Jquery from Google, you'll get more performance especially in speed, as the browser need to download it only once and then can work with it on all sites
Read more here http://encosia.com/2008/12/10/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-google-host…
mmphosis · 2010-10-01
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