A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
Jim Morris, VP for the Buzillions Platform at PowerReviews, wrote in to tell us that Buzillions launched a major redesign recently, including a comprehensive update to YUI 2.6.0. A dozen YUI components are exercised throughout the site. We first...
Nicholas Zakas is the author of the YUI Test component and as principal frontend engineer on the Yahoo Front Page team. A few weeks back, he gave a talk at the 2008 Yahoo Frontend Engineering Summit on test-driven development in the browser, walking...
Douglas keynoted our 2008 Frontend Engineering Summit here at Yahoo last week. In this talk, "Web Forward," he proposes that the standards processes have stagnated, leaving us with an inadequate platform and no orderly mechanism for improving it....
With the 2.6.0 release of YUI , the YUI Loader now supports combo-handling for both JavaScript and CSS files coming off of Yahoo's CDN. YUI Loader is the utility that understands the YUI module structure and dependency list and can load any YUI...
YUI's DataTable Control has many options, more than any single application will use. Unless you want to improvise something different for each and every page, chances are you will be using a subset of those options. As most often is the case,...
It's that time of year again. We just had the third annual Yahoo Front-end Engineering (F2E) Summit, an internal conference that brings together Yahoo F2E talent from around the world. We'll release some of the videos shortly ( the YUI 3...
Matt and I got together at Yahoo's internal Frontend Engineering Summit (an annual gathering of our frontend engineering community) to talk about YUI 3. We're pleased to share video of that talk with you here. Slides (Keynote and PDF) and the...
Back in April, PPK authored a blog entry titled Delegating the focus and blur events in which he proposed a solution to the problem that neither the focus or blur events bubble in any browser. His solution (registering capture-phase event listeners...
If you're in London, please join us for a YUI meetup on October 16 at 6:15 p.m. at the Yahoo! UK office on Shaftesbury Avenue . Sophie Major and Christian Heilmann from the Yahoo Developer Network will be the hosts on the London side, and YUI...
For YUI 2.6, a handful of widgets have examples illustrating how to use new YUI ARIA plugins. These plugins make it easy to use the WAI-ARIA Roles and States to make each widget more interoperable with assistive technologies (AT), such as screen...