I came across this yesterday looking for the mootools download link. Google is hosting a bunch of the popular javascript libraries on their server for you.
Pros:
- Use Google's Bandwidth
- Google takes care of keeping the files up to date
- Common include code across your apps
- Use Google as a Fast proxy
- Gadgets will have access to cached files
Cons:
- Have to rely on Google to keep files up to date
- Probably won't include beta releases of libraries
The main page is here and currently includes:
Example jQuery:
<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>