diff --git a/config/examples/example.html b/config/examples/example.html
index 3208d1b1d9..457efb51d5 100644
--- a/config/examples/example.html
+++ b/config/examples/example.html
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="./resources/prism/prism.css" type="text/css">
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/ol.css" type="text/css">
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="./resources/layout.css" type="text/css">
-    {{{ extraHead }}}
+    {{{ extraHead.local }}}
     {{{ css.tag }}}
     <script src="./resources/zeroclipboard/ZeroClipboard.min.js"></script>
     <title>{{ title }}</title>
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
           <textarea class="hidden" name="css">{{ css.source }}</textarea>
           <textarea class="hidden" name="html">{{ contents }}</textarea>
           <input type="hidden" name="wrap" value="l">
-          <input type="hidden" name="resources" value="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.4/css/bootstrap.min.css,https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.4/js/bootstrap.min.js,http://openlayers.org/en/v{{ olVersion }}/css/ol.css,http://openlayers.org/en/v{{ olVersion }}/build/ol.js">
+          <input type="hidden" name="resources" value="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.4/css/bootstrap.min.css,https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.4/js/bootstrap.min.js,http://openlayers.org/en/v{{ olVersion }}/css/ol.css,http://openlayers.org/en/v{{ olVersion }}/build/ol.js{{ extraResources }}">
         </form>
         <pre><code id="example-source" class="language-markup">&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
 &lt;html&gt;
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 &lt;script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/js/bootstrap.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
 &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="http://openlayers.org/en/v{{ olVersion }}/css/ol.css" type="text/css"&gt;
 &lt;script src="http://openlayers.org/en/v{{ olVersion }}/build/ol.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
-{{ extraHead }}
+{{ extraHead.remote }}
 {{#if css.source}}
 &lt;style&gt;
 {{ css.source }}
diff --git a/tasks/build-examples.js b/tasks/build-examples.js
index ac2ed10e40..8ca9c251ee 100644
--- a/tasks/build-examples.js
+++ b/tasks/build-examples.js
@@ -108,18 +108,33 @@ function augmentExamples(files, metalsmith, done) {
       // add additional resources
       if (file.resources) {
         var resources = [];
+        var remoteResources = [];
+        var fiddleResources = [];
         for (var i = 0, ii = file.resources.length; i < ii; ++i) {
           var resource = file.resources[i];
+          var remoteResource = resource.indexOf('//') === -1 ?
+              'http://openlayers.org/en/v' + pkg.version + '/examples/' +
+                  resource : resource;
+          fiddleResources[i] = remoteResource;
           if (isJsRegEx.test(resource)) {
             resources[i] = '<script src="' + resource + '"></script>';
+            remoteResources[i] = '<script src="' + remoteResource +
+                '"></script>';
           } else if (isCssRegEx.test(resource)) {
             resources[i] = '<link rel="stylesheet" href="' + resource + '">';
+            remoteResources[i] = '<link rel="stylesheet" href="' +
+                remoteResource + '">';
           } else {
             throw new Error('Invalid value for resource: ' +
                 resource + ' is not .js or .css: ' + filename);
           }
         }
-        file.extraHead = resources.join('\n');
+        file.extraHead = {
+          local: resources.join('\n'),
+          remote: remoteResources.join('\n'),
+        };
+        file.extraResources = file.resources.length ?
+            ',' + fiddleResources.join(',') : '';
       }
     }
   }