Care to be taken when serving static content (JS, CSS, Media) from different domain?

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Published on 2012-06-27T02:40:04Z Indexed on 2012/06/27 3:16 UTC
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Let me try to explain by example. Say website is hosted at example.com (NOT www.example.com). In order to serve static content cookie-free, I've chosen to use a different domain example-static.com.

Now, lets consider that my static content is currently served like this:

http://example.com/js/script.js
http://example.com/css/style.css
http://example.com/media/image.jpg

** Now I create a CNAME record aliasing example-static.com to my main domain i.e. example.com so that the static content is served as such:

http://example-static.com/js/script.js
http://example-static.com/css/style.css
http://example-static.com/media/image.jpg

** Is that all I have to do? Will all browsers execute JavaScript files and load web fonts without any security concerns? OR should I be using some .htaccess rules to modify header information and the like?

PS: It would be great if you can provide what rules should be added, if need be.

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