Use GitHub as a CDN?

[atlemo]

Use GitHub as a CDN?

[Bugster]

GitHub is slower than using an actual CDN or even your own hosting most
of the time.

On 27/04/2013 04:49, shazdeh wrote:

Hi,
is it possible from both legal and technical point to link to these
patterns on GitHub?
Any insight is appreciated.

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[tom2strobl]

It is generally not a good idea, because the file is being served as text/plain and as such being blocked in Internet Explorer on Windows 7 for instance (because of the wrong MIME type).

[1j01]

You can use rawgit (https://cdn.rawgit.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns/gh-pages/irongrip.png), which serves proper Content-Types. But keep in mind that data URIs would be preferable in most cases, because they don't even require a separate request, and some of these patterns are so small that they only take up like 200 characters in base 64. Unless you need to support ie7 (http://caniuse.com/datauri)

[DanielRuf]

GitHub explicitely says that it should not be used as CDN.

[praisedpk]

Github is not a CDN. You can use dedicated subtlepatterns CDN for direct linking of pattern images from your website.