A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
Base64 encoding was originally designed to allow lossless data passing between 8-bit and 7-bit systems. The primary example of its usage is in email, which traditionally used 7-bit systems to transfer the email while those of us at home on our...
Update (July 12, 2010): While the results described in this article are accurate for HTML pages, new tests have revealed very different cache limits for CSS and JS resources. The updated results are described in Mobile Browser Cache Limits,...
As always, let us know in the comments or @yuilibrary if we missed something important. YUI 3-based Alloy UI Formally Announced at Liferay Conference : From the press release : 'As part of this effort, Liferay also announced the immediate...
The latest installment of YUI: Open Hours will be this Friday, June 25th. Last week, Eduardo Lundgren introduced us to some of the great AlloyUI modules recently added to the Gallery. The discussion covered instantiation, configuration, development...
This article introduces my Event Binder module , recently released in the YUI 3 Gallery. YUI 3 is getting good traction in the developer community, with significant adoption of the latest 3.1.1 release and a huge infusion of new, innovative projects...
About the author: Josh Lizarraga is a YUI Contributor and frontend developer located in San Diego, California. He uses YUI to build rich frontend interfaces and Ajax applications for Autofusion, Inc. , a San Diego firm that offers web solutions to...
The Alloy components (contributed by Nate Cavanaugh and Eduardo Lundgren from Liferay) in the YUI 3 Gallery are simple to use. This example illustrates the use of the Alloy calendar to progressively enhance a set of select elements for date...
It's time again for YUI: Open Hours ! A change of schedule this week, though. The call will be on Wednesday . I want to start by sending a huge thanks to Iliyan Peychev, Andrew Bialecki , Matt Snider , and Jacob Fogg for featuring their Gallery...
A few weeks ago, Stoyan Stefanov ( @stoyanstefanov ) published the result of his research about preloading components in advance without executing them . This technique can help improve the performance of successive pages that make use of the cached...
June BayJax is is almost here, so mark your calendars for June 15 at 5:30 p.m. For this occasion, we've invited three industry experts on accessibility to share their experiences with us. Nicholas Zakas and Victor Tsaran will give us an insider's...