A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
Happy New Year from all of us here at Yahoo. Here's a digest of YUI-related news from the holiday season. As always, we invite you to let us know what we've missed by adding a comment below. YUI Sightings — MojoPortal : mojoPortal's author Joe...
One of the biggest under-the-radar movements in JavaScript development during 2008 was the reemergence of an interest in unit testing. YUI Test , YUI's unit testing framework, reached GA status in February and other libraries either introduced their...
When developing using the WAI-ARIA Roles and States , you need to test your code in a screen reader to ensure everything is working as you expect. As a follow up to my presentation on Developing Accessible Widgets with ARIA and in the interest of...
Nicole Sullivan is a website performance specialist and a former member of Yahoo's Exceptional Performance Team. She is currently writing a book for O'Reilly with Stoyan Stefanov on performance optimization and she and Stoyan are the creators of...
Douglas Crockford returns to YUI Theater with another chapter in his evolving lecture series. This session, "Ajax Performance," debunks common misconceptions about the relationship between JavaScript and performance and gives engineers a core focus...
What got you interested in building a web interface to iTunes? Or is that a dumb question? (No, not a dumb question :)) I've got a sizable song collection in my iTunes. An app for providing myself with web access seemed like a nice thing to have,...
This will be our last "In the Wild" post for 2008. It's been a fun year, filled with a lot of exciting implementations and other developments in the YUI world. Here are the once we've noted lately: YUI Sightings — PulpTunes : Here's the elevator...
We're pleased today to announce the second preview release of the new YUI 3.x codeline. This release adds significantly to PR1, providing an all-new widget foundation, two sample widgets, a new plugin architecture, a new ultralight plugin for...
We're pleased today to release the first public version of YUI Doc , a python-based documentation tool that generates API documentation for JavaScript code. YUI Doc was developed by Adam Moore, one of the principal engineers on the YUI project since...
The Accessible Rich Interet Applications (ARIA) specification is in working-draft form in the W3C. It provides a framework for implementating rich web-applications that convey improved semantics to screen reader software as a user interacts with a...