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somehnacct3757
on May 19, 2022
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Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end
Chrome started partitioning the cache a couple years ago to mitigate timing attacks, so there's no network savings anymore when a bunch of sites all link to the same jQuery cdn entry.
sefrost
on May 19, 2022
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I believe Safari has been doing it since 2013.
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110269
Gigachad
on May 19, 2022
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Someone did tests on it before this and found that with how many versions and cdn sources there are, your exact jquery is almost never in the cache.
underwater
on May 20, 2022
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Really proves the point that knowledge will atrophy. As a dev you need to invest in evergreen skills as well as trivia.
vlunkr
on May 20, 2022
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Fair enough. But it is still cached for your site.
lelandfe
on May 20, 2022
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jQuery is not unique in being cacheable
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