Geolocation is one of the more exciting HTML5-related technologies to appear in browsers, and the Geo Gallery module gives you access to location information. The W3C Geolocation API provides a simple interface to access the user's location from...

Late last year we released the beta 1 version of YUI Test. Since that time, we've been gathering feedback, fixing bugs, and implementing new features. Today I'm happy to announce the availability of YUI Test 1.0.0 beta 2, the last planned beta...

Push notifications on the web are increasing in popularity, as evidenced by the excitement over Web Sockets , and with good reason. The web is moving towards more accurate and up-to-date information as audiences turn to the Internet for real-time...

When YUI Test first debuted over three years ago, the JavaScript testing landscape looked very different. JsUnit was the de facto standard and there was very little interest or attention paid to this area. YUI Test began as a weekend project of mine...

Base64 encoding was originally designed to allow lossless data passing between 8-bit and 7-bit systems. The primary example of its usage is in email, which traditionally used 7-bit systems to transfer the email while those of us at home on our...

One of the big pushes around YUI Test for the YUI 3.1.0 release was in the area of automation. While it's great that developers are starting to write unit tests for their JavaScript, test-driven development reaches its true potential only when these...

One of the biggest under-the-radar movements in JavaScript development during 2008 was the reemergence of an interest in unit testing. YUI Test , YUI's unit testing framework, reached GA status in February and other libraries either introduced their...

For a long time, the web has been a wild west of technology. It's only been within the past five years that any sort of rigor has been applied to web development and technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. JavaScript development has been the...

At the beginning of this year, the Yahoo! Front Page team embarked on an ambitious project to completely remake the face of the company. The goal was to make the Front Page into the most important starting point on the web while also showcasing...

By Nicholas C. Zakas and Nick Fogler Front end web development has traditionally been viewed as rather "lightweight"engineering. Around the world, companies assumed that anyone could write HTML, and oftentimes software engineers were expected to...

With DOM support across all A-grade browsers , many basic (and some complex) interactions can be accomplished with relative ease. Things like adding and removing elements, inserting HTML text, and working with events are now reasonably manageable on...