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Hi All,

Does anyone know a free CDN for blueprint css framework

thanks in advance

cheers, sameera

A: 

Well, it's not technically a CDN but you can link directly to github

http://github.com/joshuaclayton/blueprint-css/raw/master/blueprint/print.css

http://github.com/joshuaclayton/blueprint-css/raw/master/blueprint/screen.css

http://github.com/joshuaclayton/blueprint-css/raw/master/blueprint/ie.css

I haven't tried this myself, and don't know if they might change it at any given moment. But it's a solution for not having to host it yourself.

For me, I would put it on my own server, I prefer not to have the dependency, and they are small files. But if you're trying to squeeze every ms I'd test it. Your servers may be faster, and a connection to them is already established.

At the same time, many browsers have a connection limit for each domain, so you may get parallel downloads, also a CDN is nice because the user often has the resource already cached (although, not likely in this case).

Personally, I wouldn't do it, unless it's Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc... and they're putting it on their servers specifically for the purpose. I use the Google CDN for jQuery, and it's great. But Blueprint just isn't there yet.

Dan Williams
Hi Dan,thanks for the replay. One little question.. what do you think about the loading performanceI will try this by myself and post the resultsthanks againsameera
sameera207
updated answer.
Dan Williams