A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
The challenge Keeping a submit button at the bottom of a line box, aligned with form controls positioned below their label (Figure 1). The tricky part If the containing block is not wide enough for the submit button to flow next to the other...
At the London Ajax meetup this week, Piotr (one of the creators of the rather good jsfiddle.net talked about spinners — the pretty common "I'm doing something" indicator — and how users perceive them. Apparently, people perceive Chrome to be faster...
When YUI Test first debuted over three years ago, the JavaScript testing landscape looked very different. JsUnit was the de facto standard and there was very little interest or attention paid to this area. YUI Test began as a weekend project of mine...
The YUI 2 JavaScript and CSS library has been an enormously successful product in the four-plus years since we released it in 2006. YUI 2 distributions have been downloaded more than 2 million times, and thousands of developers today use YUI without...
This post announces an update to Graded Browser Support , Yahoo!'s recommended browser testing matrix. The GBS page on the YUI site always has the most current GBS table. This post includes: a list of changes ; an updated chart of browsers that...
YUIConf 2010 is just around the corner, and we can't wait. Here are some things we've noticed in the meantime: YUI 3 on the New Yahoo! Mail Beta : Mike Curtis writes about YUI 3 usage on the new Yahoo! Mail beta in a YDN blog post: "For JavaScript,...
Even though this behavior is often called a " float drop " or a "drop float", the column that drops does not have to be a float...it only has to be wider than the space allocated for it. Note that this is by spec and it's a common behavior across...
Recently I had the opportunity to build my first JavaScript front end application. What follows is a short story of the discovery and evolution that comes about when trying to use tools that aren't suited for the job at hand. It is an account of the...
YUIConf 2010 is sold out! Thanks to everyone who registered — we look forward to seeing all of you in November. We're now putting the final touches on our schedule, but you can take a peek at what we have in store here:...
The YUI team released YUI 2.8.2 today. This release corrects a security-related defect that was introduced in the YUI 2 Flash component infrastructure beginning with the YUI 2.4.0 release. This defect allows JavaScript injection exploits to be...