A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
In the YUI world of late: The guy who started it all: Thomas Sha, the founder of the YUI project and the first frontend engineering manager at Yahoo, was at Adobe at the time of the AIR launch awhile back and they shot some video . If you're curious...
Google, of late, has been stepping up its public contributions to the world of frontend engineering: Gears, GWT, Doctype, and Google I/O are all manifestations of this assertive public disposition. And it's no surprise that some of this engagement...
Tell us a little bit about your site redesign for Pulte Homes . The new Pulte Homes, Inc. web redesign was launched in May 2008 to help consumers find homes using a rich and interactive map-based search tool, learn about available homes using...
Updated July 8th: The chart below has been corrected to include Safari 3.1†, replacing Safari 3.0†. This post announces an update to Graded Browser Support. The GBS page on the YUI site always has the most current information. This post includes a...
As I had to upgrade my personal blog to the newest WordPress version (and my old theme had been hacked to death), I chose to start from scratch with a WordPress theme. [ You can download the new theme here .] As I am a lazy person and I think...
Rajat Pandit has put together a bookmarklet for YUI Logger that allows you to pop open a logger console on-demand — a big convenience when you're debugging. Check out Rajat's blog and bookmarklet page for more on this project. Keep in mind that the...
You know the scenario. A bug is filed for a JavaScript issue in production. You update your development server to the same files (allegedly) that are in production but you can't reproduce the issue. Debugging your JavaScript code is horrifically...
I love YUI Grids . I know my CSS and I know how to work around different problems of browsers, but I am also very much bored about having to fix and test and create these workarounds over and over again. While YUI Grids might not be perfect for all...
The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) has an ample assortment of components. Nevertheless, there will be always some functionality you want that a library like YUI hasn't anticipated or hasn't built yet. Sometimes you just want a subset of the...
We've been obsessed with the canvas tag for a while now; we think it represents a huge opportunity for creative interfaces on the web, and current browser support for the tag is excellent (as long as you don't mind using excanvas.js for IE6/7). That...