Eliminate Reliance on External Resources (ie: Google for JQuery)

[brianherbert]

We have a number of javascript files that are hosted by other services. This is not ideal for a number of reasons. If Google is blocked in China and there's a deployment in China, then the site may not work properly without JQuery installed. Also, if you do development locally on a poor or nonexistent connection, then you cannot get those resources, making things slow / difficult. Finally, Google could potentially be collecting information and tracking users based on downloads of these files.

TASK:

• Store external resources locally and default to calling them locally wherever it makes sense (mostly just jquery).

[jetherton]

Does this mean you're also getting rid of the call to tracker.ushahidi.com? It's another unnecessary call to a 3rd party site that collects information and tracks users.

[brianherbert]

You can turn that off if you want to.

[huslage]

Found this:

application/libraries/Themes.php: $core_js .= html::script("https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.13/jquery-ui.min.js", true);

[brianherbert]

I probably won't be doing this so I'm going to unassign myself. If anyone wants to take this up, I'll be a cheerleader.

[rjmackay]

Doing this along with #338

[huslage]

I did it. I can give you a pull request if you want.

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Doing this along with #338

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[rjmackay]

@huslage Was there anything other than jquery ui?? drop a pull request but I've been messing around a lot with the js/css loading code so I'll probably rework it in with my other changes.

[rjmackay]

Should be covered in 2.7