A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
Push notifications on the web are increasing in popularity, as evidenced by the excitement over Web Sockets , and with good reason. The web is moving towards more accurate and up-to-date information as audiences turn to the Internet for real-time...
Nate Koechley, one of the early members of the YUI team, came back to Yahoo! for YUIConf 2010 and broke down the elements of touch primitives, gestures and semantics, laying a foundation for the broader language of touch interactions that drive the...
In one of the outstanding sessions of YUIConf 2010 , author and standards expert Tantek Çelik, formerly of Technorati, discusses the current state of HTML5 specifications and their readiness for use in shipping web applications. (Tantek also joined...
In a talk from YUIConf 2010 , frontend engineer Mark Kawakami of Yahoo! Sports takes you through some lessons learned in building touch-based experiences for one of the most popular websites on the internet. If the video embed below doesn't show up...
Nate Cavanaugh is the Director of User Interface Engineering for Liferay Inc. , in which he helps guide not only the interface for end user products, but also the interface for different development methodologies. Nate currently heads up Liferay's...
Ross Harmes is the Frontend Engineering Manger for Flickr, which recently completed a major presentation-tier rewrite using YUI 3. He was kind enough to join us at YUIConf 2010 to talk about that rewrite and how he and his team extracted maximum...
The YUI team, and about 250 of our closest friends, spent the week of Nov. 8 focused on YUIConf 2010 , organized by YUI engineer Jenny Donnelly (of DataTable fame). Jenny wrote a nice summary of the event , echoing what everyone here felt: It was...
Philip Tellis ( @bluesmoon ) is a long-time Yahoo! and a member of the influential Exceptional Performance team. In this talk at YUIConf 2010, Philip discussed Boomerang , an open-source tool for instrumenting and measuring performance from the...
Thanks to everyone who came out to YUIConf 2010 last week! It was a jam-packed three days of learning, sharing, and being excited by all the great work being done in the YUI community. We hosted over 200 attendees from all the over the world...
One of the highlights of YUIConf 2010 was a panel discussion on the future of frontend engineering, facilitated by Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith (of Ajaxian, Bespin, Mozilla, and Palm fame). Panelists included Elaine Wherry, founder and frontend...