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by ldar15
5461 days ago
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This is a great question for new users of jQuery, or indeed any software I need to download and integrate with my software/website. When a user is hit with malware, it affects just them (and maybe their email/facebook friends). If I download malware and incorporate it into my software, then I'm now distributing it to my users! So how I do it is I look for the community. github is a good place to look. HN is itself a good source of vetting. Google, certainly, but not the first link I find. In fact, when I first heard about jQuery, I didn't assume that the "real" site could be trusted either: if I'm going to install this on my site, and serve it to people who trust me, then it had better be trustworthy. Now imagine I run a tutorial website, and people come to my site because they trust me, and then they install software they copied from me (or my links), and distribute that to their users. Wow. Kudos to the author: I think it was bad form to blame google here, but the fact that he admitted it all does a lot to reestablish trust. |
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The situation here was that someone was using one of my samples from the jQuery 1.2 era and wanted to see if it would work with 1.6.2. He downloaded the ".it" copy of jQuery to test it with, got the syntax error when he used it in my sample, thought it was because my code didn't work right with 1.6.2, and got in touch with me about it. That's about where the post picks up at, when I rushed to grab a copy of 1.6.2 via Google and made the mistake of downloading the ".it" copy without noticing.