A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
Cooperating applications, such as mashups, must be able to exchange objects with robust interfaces. An object must be able to encapsulate its state such that the state can be modified only as permitted by its own methods. JavaScript's objects are...
Reid Burke of IdeaRefuge writes in with a new YUI implementation that tweaks the standard "stacked" spatial orientation of a tab control and replaces with a scrolling orientation (either horizontal or vertical). In his own words: I've created a YUI...
Jason Lee wrote in with this tip: In a general session with James Gosling at JavaOne last week, Tor "NetBeans Guy" Norbye demoed the really nice JavaScript support that was just added to NetBeans (code completion, browser-compatibility warnings,...
O'Reilly's InsideRIA blog has a feature up that steps through the creation from scratch of a sample YUI implementation . The sample application implements an Instant Search feature using YUI AutoComplete backed by the Yahoo! Web Search API . This is...
The YUI Team at Yahoo is set to grow — we've opened up two new engineering positions to help improve, evolve, and expand YUI. Interested? Email your resume, including portfolio URLs, to yui-jobs /at/ yahoo /dash/ inc /dot/ com. (Principals only; no...
Parisian coder Eric Abouaf (aka "Neyric") released version 0.1.0 of his YUI-based forms library, inputEx . As of this release, inputEx supports only client-side-generated views — form fields are configured in a JSON format and created for you on the...
A few months ago, we posted an article describing an innovative training program here at Yahoo called the "Juku." The basic premise of the Juku is to help fill the void of professional-grade Front-End Web Development training. Our motives for doing...
The #2 book on Amazon's JavaScript shelf this morning is Douglas Crockford's forthcoming Javascript: The Good Parts (currently available for preorder and due for release later this month). In this volume, Douglas articulates a philosophy of coding...
One of the challenges faced in creating and deploying Rich Text Editors is the number of markup formats you may need to support on the output side — ranging from HTML to Wiki-style text to purely idiosyncratic markup styles. Dav worked hard on the...
Chad at 2tbsp.com wrote up a nice tutorial last week outlining some practical fundamentals with respect to writing "unobtrusive JavaScript." His example implements a standard rollover, beginning with bad-old-days obtrusive scripting, migrating to...