Hi Eric, In my humble opinion, you are *far* better off hosting the libraries yourself rather than depending on an .mit.edu server. Like, night and day better off.
The Yahoo folks have studied the issues of people's caches being primed and the effect is, unfortunately, much less than what would be hoped for. The odds of one of your clients having a cached version of the Simile libraries from some other Simile-based page that is not connected to your app are tiny. Or smaller. Be vertically integrated, host it yourself. Regards, Larry ________________________________ From: Eric Pugh <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 8:52:19 AM Subject: Re: simile.mit.edu down? Joern, We are seeing the same thing. I had made the assumption that this site would be more reliable then hosting it ourselves, and allow the possiblity that folks might already have the javascript cached locally, however, maybe we are better off hosting it ourselves :-( I know Google had an effort to host some big javascript libraries, is there anything like that for the Simile assets? Eric On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:25 AM, Jörn Clausen wrote: > > Hi! > > I think simile.mit.edu is down. The site is not reachable, and so are > sites still using the code hosted there. > > Is this a planned downtime? Did I miss the EOL announcement?? > > -- > Joern Clausen > [email protected] > http://www.oe-files.de/oefiles/ > http://thebloeg.blogspot.com/ > > > ----------------------------------------------------- Eric Pugh | Principal | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 | http://www.opensourceconnections.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
