A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
It's been a busy July and August for the YUI team, working on a preview release of YUI's next-generation 3.x codeline and ramping up for the next release in the 2.x codeline — a release in which we're focusing on bringing DataTable and RTE out of...
YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1 was made available on Wednesday, and with it we provided a look at how the next major iteration of YUI is taking shape. Among the elements we shipped with the preview is a new example from Dav Glass , the Draggable Portal ,...
The web is made of open standards. This was a significant factor in the web's displacement of proprietary application platforms. Openness is hugely attractive, so much so that the web dominates over competitors with better technologies. The...
The YUI team is pleased to announce the public availability of YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1 , an early look at what we're working on for the next generation of the YUI Library. Documentation for YUI 3.0 is on the YUI website; the download is available...
The YUI TabView Control is built on a strong foundation of semantic markup that provides users with some basic accessibility. But while TabView looks like a desktop tab control, screen readers don't present it as an atomic widget, leaving users to...
Marco van Hylckama Vlieg , author of the YUI-based Dark Matter theme for Pixelpost ( free version | pro version ), is back with another outstanding contribution to the YUI ecosystem: The new AccordionView Widget . We've written about a number of...
External JavaScript files block downloads and hurt your page performance, but there is an easy way to work around this problem: use dynamic scripts tags and load scripts in parallel, improving the page loading speed and the user experience. The...
In Performance Research Part 1 , we discussed how reducing the number of HTTP requests has the biggest impact on improving the response time and is often the easiest performance improvement to make. One technique without having to simplify the page...
As a JavaScript toolkit developer, there are two features lacking in Opera that have frustrated me for a while: support for the contextmenu DOM event and the ability to override the default rendering of focus via CSS. When Opera released version...
We've been talking for a long time at Yahoo about the importance of minimizing HTTP requests to improve performance . One important technique for YUI users has long been to use the pre-built "rollup" files (like...