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Does anyone know a free CDN for blueprint css framework

Sebass van Boxel
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sameera207
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Well, it's not technically a CDN but you can link directly to github

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//github.com/joshuaclayton/blueprint-css/raw/master/blueprint/print.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//github.com/joshuaclayton/blueprint-css/raw/master/blueprint/screen.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//github.com/joshuaclayton/blueprint-css/raw/master/blueprint/ie.css"/>

I haven't tried this myself, and don't know if they might change it at any given moment. But it's a solution for not having to host it yourself.

For me, I would put it on my own server, I prefer not to have the dependency, and they are small files. But if you're trying to squeeze every ms I'd test it. Your servers may be faster, and a connection to them is already established.

At the same time, many browsers have a connection limit for each domain, so you may get parallel downloads, also a CDN is nice because the user often has the resource already cached (although, not likely in this case).

Personally, I wouldn't do it, unless it's Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc... and they're putting it on their servers specifically for the purpose. I use the Google CDN for jQuery, and it's great. But Blueprint just isn't there yet.

Eddie Parker
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Dan Williams
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  • Hi Dan, thanks for the replay. One little question.. what do you think about the loading performance I will try this by myself and post the results thanks again sameera – sameera207 Aug 20 '10 at 10:12
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    -1, you want a CDN to have good performance and caching behavior, which GitHub's raw view of a file doesn't – orip Jun 12 '11 at 09:34
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    yup, my first sentence "Well, it's not technically a CDN". It may not be the answer he wanted, doesn't mean it's a bad answer. – Dan Williams Jun 14 '11 at 13:16
  • Thanks figuring and alternate... +1 from me. it is helpful when doing basic development work. – Zerotoinfinity Dec 18 '14 at 12:13