A few months ago we launched the first beta release of Search Direct. This new product explores the concept of real-time feedback, instantly delivering answers to the user with each keystroke. Given the diversity of Yahoo!'s audience, we wanted to...

This article introduces my Event Binder module , recently released in the YUI 3 Gallery. YUI 3 is getting good traction in the developer community, with significant adoption of the latest 3.1.1 release and a huge infusion of new, innovative projects...

A few weeks ago, Stoyan Stefanov ( @stoyanstefanov ) published the result of his research about preloading components in advance without executing them . This technique can help improve the performance of successive pages that make use of the cached...

More and more web applications are loading content on demand with AJAX or injecting DOM fragments into elements to update old content with new content. If the new content includes certain JavaScript functionality -- for example, links that trigger...

Creating complex web applications demands organization and modularization. Modularization introduces a new problem — the comunication pipes between components. This is a serious challenge for developers, as more components and widgets mean more...

There have been many influential articles about event-driven programming within the web browser , and developers are increasingly using this technique. But there is room to push the approach even further, and with it the capabilities of our web...