Local Themes versus Hosted

Bèr Kessels - August 15, 2008 - 10:34
Project:YUI Framework
Version:5.x-1.x-dev
Component:Code
Category:feature request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active
Description

There are hardly advantages when serving your CSS from remote. But many disadvantages.
* If the remote code changes, your site may break completely. Hence you need to include stable releases; loosing advantages of new features in yahoos code.
* Your site becomes a lot slower, somehow due to the way browsers handle remote sources.
* If remote goes down your sites layout breaks.
* But worst of all: privacy. Yahoo can track you, and all your visitors when you include their file. Many people should care about this privacy, especially site-owners should be aware of such issues. In e.g. the EU you are obliged to mention such remote-files in your privacy-policy, after all your are "exporting" valuable user-data to a US-based company.

Therefore I plead to make all files local.
Patch will be attached in next update.

#1

Bèr Kessels - August 15, 2008 - 11:06

Patch attached.
cvs diff does not allow adding unversioned files in a patch, hence the patch does not include the downloaded/new files yet.

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make_files_local.diff 3.49 KB
 
 

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