To jQuery or not to jQuery?

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Published on 2010-05-14T18:43:32Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 18:44 UTC
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I rather enjoy adding practical eye-candy to the networking community I've been developing but as things start to stack up I worry about load times.

  1. Is it truly faster to have users load (a hopefully cached) copy of jquery from Google's repositories?

  2. Does using jQuery for AJAX calls improve/reduce efficiency over basic javascript xmlHTTP requests?

  3. Is there a practical way to cut down the number of included scripts? For example, I include jQuery and jQuery UI from google, table sorter, and a growl plug-in.

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