A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
Yesterday we released YUI 3.7.0pr2 and encouraged everyone to test it thoroughly, and you did! YUI 3.7.0pr3 is now available and contains some last minute fixes for issues you found in yesterday's release. It's on the Yahoo! CDN (and as a download...
One of the great benefits of developing YUI in the open is that everyone is free to contribute in a way that highlights their own talents. One such talented person is Kevin Lamping. Kevin takes Khan Academy style training to the next level with his...
Two weeks ago we released YUI 3.7.0pr1 , today we're releasing the second and final preview release for the current development sprint. YUI 3.7.0pr2 is now available to the developer community for feedback and testing on the Yahoo! CDN (and as a...
Deferreds, Promises, Transactions, and the future of IO A year or more ago, Eric F and I started a design discussion about IO's API. I proposed some ideas for a different (I'd like to say improved) interface for not only IO, but potentially for...
ScrollView In addition to the new features detailed in the 3.7.0PR1 blog post (support for dual-axis, forced-axis, and RTL), the PR2 release of ScrollView also introduces a refactored _flickFrame method ( ca118aa ). This is notable because that...
This week marks the conclusion of the month-long 3.7.0 development cycle. With code frozen, any further changes to 3.7.0 will be minimal, and what you see in Master at the moment should be very close to the final GA release. Next steps are a 2nd...
Big week around YUI HQ as we wrapped up our latest work and pushed 3.7.0pr1 to the CDN. You can read all about the changes and improvements in the latest blog post . ScrollView received a major update this release, so here's a detailed overview of...
We've previously mentioned our plans to move to a more rapid release cycle for YUI, and now the work we put into automating our unit and functional testing in 3.6.0 is making that possible. YUI 3.7.0pr1 is now available to the developer community...
Checking in with Dav We last chatted with Dav Glass in May , and as you can imagine, he hasn't been idle since then. So it's time for us to peek over his shoulder once again! We'll walk through Shifter , his new Node.js-based YUI module build tool,...
Our build system has been on my mind lately, our old ant system was just getting too slow to keep up with the changes I was making and it was making it very difficult for our Automatic Travis Pull Request builds to test incoming changes properly if...