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		Encosia on Dec 31, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hotlinking to jquery.com will be disabled on Janua... Avoid using the "latest version" reference. In order to ensure that it's serving the latest version, it serves the script with an extremely short expires header.

scotth on Dec 31, 2010 [–]

Not to mention that referencing the latest version means that your code will be untested against anything but the library version you built against.

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