Best way to use Google's hosted jQuery, but fall back to my hosted library on Google fail

Question

What would be a good way to attempt to load the hosted jQuery at Google (or other Google hosted libs), but load my copy of jQuery if the Google attempt fails?

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Answer 1

Almost all public CDNs are pretty reliably. However, if you are worried about blocked google domain, then you can simply fallback to an alternative jQuery CDN. However, in such a case, you may prefer to do it opposite way and use some other CDN as your preferred option and fallback to Google CDN to avoid failed requests and waiting time: