A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
Philippe Le Hégaret, who heads the W3C Interaction Domain, stopped by Yahoo! recently to give a talk about HTML5. While the HTML5 specification itself does actually not contain many new features, the new Web platform, often labeled as HTML5, does...
It's been an exciting couple of weeks in the YUI community with some great new gallery modules ( Storage Lite , Simple Menu , and more good ones coming). Here's some other recent news, featuring two nice YUI demos from the prolific Christian...
Note: We have now hired for this position. Please check the YUI jobs page for additional YUI related jobs at Yahoo! If working alongside people like Douglas Crockford and on the team that created YUI ( Matt Sweeney , Adam Moore , Dav Glass , Jenny...
The third installment of the Crockford on JavaScript series provides a deep-dive on functions in JavaScript. Douglas begins the talk this way: We're going to be talking about functions tonight. Functions are the very best part of JavaScript. It's...
With more and more browsers adding support for the HTML5 Web Storage API , the future is looking good for web applications that need persistent client-side data storage. Unfortunately, maintaining compatibility with older browsers that don't yet...
Over the past few months I conducted an audit of the patterns in Yahoo!'s internal design pattern library, with an eye toward publishing as many of them as possible in the open library at YDN . Why? Well, for one thing, to get more eyeballs on them,...
Note: This position has been filled. Thanks to all who applied. -Eric The YUI team has an opened a position for a summer intern ( full details on the Yahoo! internship program are available here ). If you're a college student working toward a CS...
As the YUI Team wraps up work on the core widget foundation for YUI 3 , one of the things we're seeing in the YUI 3 Gallery is transitional solutions that help flesh out YUI 3 implementations. Some of these, like Julien Lecomte's SimpleMenu , are...
Today, we checked in our work-to-date on the next generation of YUI Charts. You can find this pre-alpha code, along with some examples, in the sandbox directory of the YUI 3 head on GitHub . This initial release is a preview of where we're going...
Some recent news and notes from the YUI community follows. What did we miss? Let us know in the comments or @yuilibrary on Twitter. Matt Snider's YUI 3-based Radial Menus : Matt Snider's most recent project was inspired by Bioware's designers:...