Are Ajax libraries hosted in China /Asia

[China Snippets]

I'm contemplating using the AJAX Libraries API but I was wondering
where these libraries are hosted.

The reason I ask is that Google products can be slightly unstable in
the Chinese mainland and as I intend to use one of the libraries for a
China hosted website, it would be great if someone can help me out
here.

Additionally, in case the libraries are not hosted in the Chinese
mainland, could it be an option that this will be implemented and get
a localized solution for this?

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

[Ben Lisbakken]

Hey there --

Yes, the Libraries API should work well in China.

-Ben

[Tim Burns]

This may have changed.  I am troubleshooting a problem now where https://www.google.com/jsapi performs very poorly from china website.  It seems there is no trouble https://www.google.cn/jsapi but I am looking for a programmatic way to know if the user is from CHina or the rest of the world.

[Jeremy Geerdes]

My understanding is that, as with all Google services, the hosting of the JSAPI and its related services is distributed around the globe. However, they don't exactly publish a list of all their data center locations.

To answer your question, the best way I can think of to tell if a user is in China would be to utilize the HTML5 ClientLocation functionality baked into the browser. It won't be 100% effective, but it may be the best option available.

jg

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