Anyone know of a good way to defensively code against Esri's host being down for the js api (like today)? I would rather have my site fail gracefully but don't really know how to handle that. right now it just hangs and i get firebug errors eventually about dojo is not defined.
Never had the issue, but yes, today I do...Don't know how to test for their api availability. I have used esri.request to try to get json callback to test and trap for map service availability.
I seem to recall around the 2.0 days when we wanted to host it locally you had to contact esri and they would send you a dvd and it was an installation process on your server. That seems like overkill when you consider it is really just a text file is it not?
Would still be nice to have a way to code defensively against the api not loading , regardless of where it is being served from. Might be nice to even have it try a backup locale if the initial is not working.
