Should I use Google's JSAPI in production code?

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should-i-link-to-google-apis-cloud-for-js-libraries

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Answer 1

China has 500 million internet users and is not the only country that blocks google apis, this makes any website that uses http://www.google.com/jsapi dysfunctional. There is a small upside: due to the asynchronous load technique, these sites don´t display the same hang waiting to load as other sites that use the direct reference as eg: