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- They might make it more difficult to run uPortal off-line when you don't have a network connection and the browser doesn't have a cached version of the desired library. You can work around this by temporarily modifying the source code, or creating an entry in your machine's hosts file and hosting the javascript library locally (see below).
- Scripts hosted on the Resource Server in both non-minified and minified versions allow selecting the non-minified versions by disabling Aggregation in the uPortal Admin UI. If scripts are listed in a skin.xml file and included with the <rs:aggregatedResources path="skin.xml"/> tag you do get minified or non-minified versions accordingly.
CDNs are recommended for the following libraries. Libraries referenced on CDNs should also be placed in the resource server so they are available when off-line in an emergency (see above).
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