[weego]

You've now got people wondering why their page just reloaded after half a second and a slug of unnecessary javascript in your page all for the sake of simplicity.

A simple solution would be to just link to a self-hosted version of the lib.

[jQueryIsAwesome]

False; because (if the script is inside the head of the page) the loading of Javascript is synchronous so the user will not notice any refresh at all.