A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
We are pleased to announce YUI 3.5.0, now available on CDN at http://yui.yahooapis.com/3.5.0/build/yui/yui-min.js or as a download . Highlights for this release include: Availability of YUI in Node.js as an NPM module Formal introduction of "night"...
In this talk from the March 5, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Douglas Crockford outlines the basic principles of designing secure software, with a focus on web applications. With his usual sardonic wit, he starts at the beginning (almost literally --...
Disclaimer #1: You’re already doing functional programming: everytime you pass a callback to Y.on . This article is about digging a bit deeper. Disclaimer #2: Replacing for loops with function calls does add execution overhead. However, this is...
Eduardo Lundgren of Liferay will be presenting a YUI talk at Pernambuco.JS in Brazil April 21. This will be the first edition of the tech conference dedicated to Javascript developers of Brazil's Pernambuco state. Eduardo, a Senior Software Engineer...
When I sat down to build the YUI 3 version of Page Layout , I knew it would be a big job. Even though the YUI 2 version was on its third incarnation, the code was still a mess. The original design, dramatically simplified from the performance...
When working with tabular data, it is nice to be able to see as many columns as possible. If the table is the only widget on the page, then you can let the table expand and the viewport will scroll. However, this will not work if you need to display...
JavaScript is an amalgam of good parts and bad parts. Its best parts came from Self (prototypes) and Scheme (lexically scoped nested functions). But the interaction of those two very good parts produced some bad parts. When a function is called with...
3.5.0 Examples update We got our ducks in a row last week and launched 3.5.0 PR4 (yay!). So this week we'll focus on the documentation; particularly, the new and revitalized examples that will be included with 3.5.0. Jeff Conniff, our mild mannered...
Illustration is adapted from a photo by Michael Myers (@Fristle on Flickr) YUI 3.5.0 Preview Release 4, the last preview before the official release, is now available to the developer community for feedback and testing on the Yahoo! CDN at...
3.5.0 Preview Release 4 If all goes well with the final steps in the deployment process upgrade, 3.5.0 PR4 will be available on the CDN this Wednesday the 21st. With PR3 having been stalled, PR4 will be a big release, seeing lots of progress from...