I have seen some code written for a fallback but did not understand how it work, and was wondering if there was a an easier way to write fallback code or if not using the complicated fallback code, and if anyone willing maybe break it down for someone who is still new to this.(I didn’t want to ask a…

I would handle it this way:  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-beta.2/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-PsH8R72JQ3SOdhVi3uxftmaW6Vc51MKb0q5P2rRUpPvrszuE4W1povHYgTpBfshb" crossorigin="anonymous">  <script src="https://…

In this instance are you saying you’ll link to the CDN but you’ll have a local copy of the minified files in case the CDN goes down?

Is linking to the CDN preferable to the local files?

In most situations, I would say yes. There are a few benefits having resources loaded from a CDN: Cache. Many websites share the same libraries like jQuery. So, if a different website uses jQuery from a CDN it get’s cached on user’s computer. If the same user visits your website which uses the sam…

In addition to what @andreasremdt mentioned Parallel downloads - the browser can download multiple files from multiple resources concurrently, resulting reduced download overall time Location/Proximity - CDN are usually distributed, so the closest location to the user are used for their download A…

[image] andreasremdt: But in general this shouldn’t be necessary as the common CDNs are very reliable and should never fail. Of course there are exceptions but, but I have never heard about any problems with CDNs. This, however true, is still an assumption. The most important factor that may …

Thank you for your detailed break down, i have one more question on the solution, in the script where you are checking to see if $.fn.modal is present, if it isn’t then how does the script know to put it in the < head > tag or do you normally write a small script inside of the html document that is …

@adityaparab Yes, that can definitely happen. I never ran into a situation like this, but you are absolutely right :slight_smile: @baltz1 You have to put the code into the head of your HTML document, it then inserts the two lines in the head. If you would put the code into your body, it inserts t…

Using a fallback code in case bootstrap's cdn is down

PortableStick November 25, 2017, 12:51am 2

Can you point us to what you’re talking about?

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Using a fallback code in case bootstrap's cdn is down

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