GS 3.1 and jQuery

[mvlcek]

Obviously everyone has their preferences, and I am not going to make everyone happy with whatever choice I use.

I switched it based on a thread complaining that because of caching it would be better to use a CDN version of jQuery. I see both sides - and want to choose the version that most people will be happy with.

I respect both of you, but it's getting increasingly hard to attempt to keep everyone happy with every change...

The caching makes a lot of sense for the site itself - the front end, because an average user browses lot's of sites - maybe only once - and by using a CDN version he has only to download jQuery once instead of 10 or 100 times.
And of course any user browsing the internet has an internet connection.

On the other side you normally only administrate one site (or a few at most), so downloading another copy of jQuery into the browser cache once doesn't make much difference compared to the hundreds of calls to administration pages. And - as opposed to a theme, where I can easily exchange the CDN link with a local version - this is not possible in the backend without loosing the ability to upgrade without problems.

So, if you want to enforce all themes to use CDN versions of js file, I'll wholeheartedly agree with you, but I think it's the wrong approach for an administration backend.