A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
Here at OCLC — a worldwide non-profit library cooperative that provides web visibility for library catalogues around the world — we initially came across YUI while discussing grid frameworks early in 2008. Later that year the subject of JavaScript...
The Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) allows you to write programs that run on the Yahoo! network — on the Yahoo! home page, My Yahoo!, and beyond. Reid Burke ( @reid ) of the YAP team came to YUICONF 2009 to talk not only about YAP but about how...
The YUI 3 Gallery got an interesting new addition today: Caridy Patino Mayea's YUI 2 Wrapper Utility . Wrapper allows you to pull in YUI 2 modules from YUI 3 use() statements. Check out Caridy's documentation for the Wrapper here . How easy? Here's...
Allen Rabinovich spoke at YUICONF 2009 last month about the future of the YUI Charts project. He and colleague Tripp Bridges are hard at work on the next generation of the product, and in this session Allen talks through the thinking behind the new...
Todd Kloots ( @toddkloots ) gave two talks at YUICONF 2009 . In this session, he explores what he regards as the hidden gems of YUI 3 — the useful methods and properties found throughout the library's core modules that help your write fast, stable,...
The only thing that's not awesome about Yahoo! having an Open Hack Day in Indonesia this weekend is that it's too far away for many of us in California to make the trip. Fortunately, an excellent group of international Yahoo!s will be carrying the...
Do you have some YUI-related news or an implementation you'd like to share? Let us know in the comments. @ara_p's Tool for Graphing YUI Animation Easing Methods : Newly-minted Yahoo! Mail engineer Ara Pehlivanian posted a nifty tool that helps you...
More and more web applications are loading content on demand with AJAX or injecting DOM fragments into elements to update old content with new content. If the new content includes certain JavaScript functionality -- for example, links that trigger...
Members of the Adify team: (From left to right) Kunal Cholera, Reynold Wang, Takashi Arai, Levi Wolfe, Robert Porter, Edwin Jarlos, Melroy Saldanha. Tell us about your company/product/website. Adify offers two related services — the Adify Network...
YUI architect Matt Sweeney's ( @msweeney ) talk at YUICONF 2009 focused on extracting maximum performance from YUI 3 . He drilled into the seed file options, lazy-loading strategies, and YUI 3 techniques for DOM and Event interaction that keep...