A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
Since the initial release of the App Framework in YUI 3.4.0, we've been astonished by how quickly it's been adopted. In projects large and small , both long-time YUI users and those who are completely new to the library have been enthusiastically...
In this talk from YUIConf 2011, YUI engineer Allen Rabinovich ( @allenr ) shares the process he used to architect and build the new Calendar widget in YUI 3, and explains how you can use a similar process to build your own widgets. He also shows off...
Pat Cavit ( @tivac ), a frontend engineer at ArenaNet and an active YUI contributor and community member, joined us at YUIConf 2011 to give this talk on automating build-time website optimizations such as file concatenation, minification, renaming,...
The QuickEdit plugin for YUI 3 DataTable makes it easy to edit an entire page of records as an atomic operation. However, sometimes you need to do even more. For example, you might have to simultaneously edit more records than you can comfortably...
In this talk given at Yahoo!, Steve Peha, the president of Teaching That Makes Sense , makes a case for applying the processes and culture of the technology world to the world of education. Links View in HD on YouTube Visit the YUI Theater Channel...
YUI 3.5.0 Roadmap Now that YUIConf 2011 is over (and it was awesome !), the team is back to the grindstone, working on 3.5.0. We've outlined the high level goals for the release , and we can talk about some of them, but what we'd like to focus on in...
In this talk from YUIConf 2011, YUI engineer Satyen Desai discusses what he learned about mobile performance -- and how those learnings will feed back into YUI -- when he spent a few months working with the Yahoo! Livestand team on their gorgeous...
Mozilla Labs engineer and TC39 representative Dave Herman joined us at YUIConf 2011 to give this keynote talk on the future of JavaScript, covering many of the new features currently under consideration for ES6, the next edition of the ECMAScript...
In this highly-rated talk from YUIConf 2011, YUI engineer Luke Smith provides a deeply technical overview of the various JavaScript class inheritance and composition patterns (ranging from pseudoclassical to prototypal to a mixture of both)...
In one of the most popular talks at YUIConf 2011, YUI engineer Eric Ferraiuolo discusses the MVC components of the YUI App Framework and some of the new features coming in YUI 3.5.0 and beyond, including Handlebars -based templating and a new Y.App...