A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
Nicholas Zakas ( @slicknet ), former Yahoo! engineer and author of several books about JavaScript , joined us at the March 5th, 2012 BayJax event to share his vision of progressive enhancement and how web pages don't have to look the same in every...
Some of you have been wondering when YUI 3.5.0 PR3 will be released. After all, the scheduled release date for 3.5.0 PR3 was last week, March 5th, but here we are on the 12th, and no PR3. So what gives? Current Status In parallel to development on...
At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer and SoundManager developer Scott Schiller ( @schill ) uncovered HTML5 audio's dark and dirty secrets, and explained why he thinks both HTML5 audio and Flash audio have their...
At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer Stephen Woods ( @ysaw ) shared his hard-won advice for building responsive touch-based interfaces using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. He also revealed how Star Trek: The Next...
At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer Eric Gelinas ( @standardpixel ) spoke about the challenges involved in building interfaces for geotagging and mapping. Using examples from Flickr and other sites, he covered...
Tired of Ant? Check out buildy YUI community superstar Eamon Brosnan (aka mosen) has been working on a build framework called buildy that he hopes will provide an alternative to Apache's Ant . Here's the sexy part: it's written in JavaScript on...
Yeti update Reid has freed up some time for Yeti development recently, and there are some worthwhile updates to broadcast in the world of automated JavaScript testing. There have been the standard issue bug fixes and enhancements, of course, but...
Checking in with Dav Glass It's been a while since we checked in with Dav Glass . You know he's always good for some interesting innovation, and it's about time to get a report on the new shiny (or green-on-black) stuff he's been working on for the...
In this talk from YUIConf 2011, Yahoo! frontend engineer Gonzalo Cordero ( @goonieiam ) reveals how Yahoo! Local used YUI 3 to develop their iOS app using a native Objective-C wrapper with HTML5 and YUI running in a UIWebView. He argues that there's...
3.5.0pr2 is available We deployed the second 3.5.0 preview release right on time, celebrated for a couple minutes, then went back to work on PR3, which will be the gating preview before 3.5.0 GA in mid-March. But we'll stop to take a breath and...