A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
News and notes from around the YUI world during the past few weeks: Ticketmaster Subsidiary Echo Using YUI Menus and DataTables : Geoff Alday from Ticketmaster subsidiary echo wrote in to tell us about a terrific implementation of YUI that his team...
The ANT-based component build tool that we use to build YUI components from their source code is now publicly available on GitHub . This is a component build tool targeted at processing the source for a single component (say, TabView) and creating...
JavaScript has a single number type: IEEE 754 Double Precision floating point. Having a single number type is one of JavaScript's best features. Multiple number types can be a source of complexity, confusion, and error. A single type is simplifying...
YUI Grids CSS has long been an important tool for developers wishing to create more accessible layouts. Through its support of source-order independent layouts, Grids enables control of the reading order of a page, allowing developers to place the...
Here's the latest digest of YUI news and notes from the past few weeks. You can follow these in realtime on the YUI Library Twitter feed . As always, please let us know in the comments if there's something important we missed. Stoyan Stefanov's Site...
Traditionally, file uploading in the browser has been awkward, slow and error-prone. File selection is done one at a time and monitoring progress of the upload is difficult. There are no simple callbacks for total bytes, progress, error handling and...
In Part I , we saw how to format a date using YUI's date formatter. In Part II, we'll look at formatting dates for a specific use case — inside the DataTable control. DataTables are a great tool for presenting all types of data to the users of your...
A core requirement for developers using ARIA is to provide keyboard access for widgets, as users of screen readers rely on the keyboard to navigate web sites and applications. A large part of providing keyboard access is managing focus of a widget's...
It's been a big week in the YUI world, with YUI 2.7.0 being released and our third birthday coming up. But, as usual, most of the news is coming from the YUI community, with new implementations, articles, and adaptations emerging every day. Here's...
The YUI Library turned three years old this month and we'd like to invite you -- our community of developers and implementers -- to come out and celebrate! To celebrate our third birthday (and our 2.7.0 release), we'll be hosting a recession-chic...