A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
GBS Changes Specific changes for this update include: No longer assign experience grades Discontinued prescribing specific operating systems (except for mobile) Added coverage for Internet Explorer 9 Added coverage for Firefox 4. Added coverage for...
Editor's Note: Since this article was originally published, the MakeNode module has been published to the YUI Gallery and received some enhancements. Please refer to the updated article, Updated: The “MakeNode” Widget Extension . In my previous...
In 3.4.0 we started the process of shifting some of Loader's logic around, to not only make it more performant, but to make it more robust and easier to use in other places (like on the server). We will be rolling out more changes in future...
Flickr's Scott Schiller provides a history of audio in the browser and discusses the current state of native , including browser support, its spec, the ongoing format wars, and how you might implement audio in project work today. Download video...
Preview of the new graphics API in 3.4.0 In the process of building the Charts component for version 3.3.0, we discovered there was a reasonable set of functionality that stood apart from a chart-centric implementation, such as basic 2D shape and...
The YUI team has just completed the second sprint of the 3.4.0 development cycle. We've posted the results of the sprint to the CDN for community exploration and feedback. You can access this release at...
Preview of the windowing improvements in 3.4.0 One of the active areas of development in YUI 3.4.0 is in Windowing components. By taking advantage of YUI3's modular architecture, we're building components that can be mixed and matched by developers...
From the Yahoo! F2E Summit (our internal developer conference) earlier this year, YUI engineer Dav Glass ( @davglass ) explores how to use YUI on Node.js to build server-side projects, including scripts, crontabs, daemons, etc. Download video (mp4)...
YUI uses Git to host all of its project code, and all of its open-sourced code is hosted on GitHub . Git is an exciting departure from traditional version control systems like CVS and SVN because the notion of distribution is embedded in its DNA....
YUI 3 App Framework (think MVC) Version 3.4.0 will see the release of a new, very important infrastructure piece to the YUI suite of application and widget scaffolding: Ryan Grove has teamed up with Eric Ferraiuolo to create what we're calling the...