Michael asked:

So having common JavaScript files "in the cloud" and referencing them in your code as absolute urls is becoming more common. Is there a way to have CF point to the EXT-JS files hosted by a third party?

My initial answer to this question was no. I knew that the ajaxImport tag supported a scriptSrc attribute. According to the docs, this specifies a folder, relative to the web root, where the relevant JavaScript files will be loaded.

On a whim though, I tried a full path:

<cfajaximport scriptsrc="http://www.cnn.com/foo/" tags="cfwindow" />

Surprisingly, this not only didn't throw out an error, it actually worked. By "work" of course I mean it used the URL prefix as I set it:

script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.cnn.com/foo/ajax/messages/cfmessage.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.cnn.com/foo/ajax/package/cfajax.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.cnn.com/foo/ajax/yui/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.cnn.com/foo/ajax/yui/animation/animation-min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.cnn.com/foo/ajax/ext/adapter/yui/ext-yui-adapter.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.cnn.com/foo/ajax/ext/ext-all.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.cnn.com/foo/ajax/package/cfwindow.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.cnn.com/foo/ajax/resources/ext/css/ext-all.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.cnn.com/foo/ajax/resources/cf/cf.css" />

None of these URLs will actually work, but if they did, it looks as if scriptSrc would be an appropriate way to load them. I tend to get a bit anal about not following the CF docs to the letter of the law, but I can't see any reason why Adobe would stop this behavior.