Google Code Ajax libraries Introduction

Google code is hosting a lot Ajax libraries, it’s free load it from any server or website.

Here are the list of Ajax libraries provided by Google code so far.
1. jQuery
2. jQuery UI
3. Prototype
4. script_aculo_us
5. MooTools
6. Dojo
7. SWFObjectNew!
8. Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)New!

Why need to load ajax libraries from Google Code?

Sometime a lot people asking me about why we should load Ajax libraries from Google code? Since i can load it from my server, why i should let Google control my library?

Well, basically we load it for two reasons
1) Save bandwitdh – Google server is faster than your server , library load very fast from Google code.
2) Cache – High chance Google libraries is cached if user had visited some sites which deliver from Google code. It will increase your website response time.

Here is the example to show how to load JQuery library from Google ~

<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>  
<script type="text/javascript">  
 
    google.load("jquery", "1.2.6");  
 
    google.setOnLoadCallback(function() {  
          //your code
    });  
 
</script>

Alternatively , we can include a direct link like following

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>

More detail about Google Code, please visit following Google code site
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation/index.html