Is there a way to use a CDN (for jQuery) and have an offline Web app (via HTML5 manifests)?

Question

I\'m beginning to look at HTML5s ability to allow for offline Web applications.

A while back I found that using a CDN worked well for my applications, so I\'ve been stic

Answer 1

the path of checking if online jquery exists and if not loading from local was answered here: How to load local script files as fallback in cases where CDN are blocked/unavailable?

where there is a discussion and a couple of different approaches

personally I like the html5boilerplate approach:

you can check if the browser supports offline caching with modernizer http://www.modernizr.com/ the modernizer 2.0 version supports conditional loading , so you can use it to detect and load the needed resource with the following script (taken from diveintohtml5):

    if (Modernizr.applicationcache) {
  // window.applicationCache is available!
} else {
  // no native support for offline :(
  // maybe try Gears or another third-party solution
}

but as I said before, I prefer the html5boilerplate method