A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
Over on DjangoSnippets.org, akaihola has posted a YUILoader class (based on Adam Moore's client-side YUI Loader ) that makes it a snap to pull YUI components into your Django projects. This server-side middleware implements some of the functionality...
David Cilley this week published the second in his series of articles on using the YUI Slider Control to provide real-time previewing of image changes. Part 1: The OnDemand method . Part 2: The Interval method . In this second installment, David...
Mitch at PlankDesign.com has posted a nice review of one of the least-discussed aspects of YUI Core — the YAHOO Global Object 's YAHOO.lang member. He covers a number of the language conveniences provided therein, including type checking, trim ,...
If you're heading to Web 2.0 Expo this week, stop by the big Yahoo booth and say hello. Dav Glass will be at the booth tomorrow (Wednesday) and Jenny Han Donnelly will be joined by Adam Moore on Thursday along with our friends and colleauges from...
Creating complex web applications demands organization and modularization. Modularization introduces a new problem — the comunication pipes between components. This is a serious challenge for developers, as more components and widgets mean more...
We mentioned Dan Wellman's new book the other day, Learning the Yahoo! User Interface Library , and provided a PDF of the chapter on the YUI Connection Manager . The publisher, Packt, has put up another sample chapter on its own site — one that goes...
As I continue the practice of the craft of programming, I am always examining my practices. Can I improve the patterns that I use so that I can make my programs clearer, stronger, better? This is particularly important when working with a language...
Dav Glass , author of the YUI Rich Text Editor (as well as Resize , ImageCropper , and Layout Manager ), gave a talk at Yahoo! last week about rich text editing in YUI. In this talk, Dav covers three key topics: Implementing the light Simple Editor;...
YUI community member Matt Galvin of Simplified Complexity has been working on some new skins for YUI . He's early in the process, but it's not too early to start taking advantage of his work — he's starting with an XP-style theme and he's applied it...
As we mentioned in a recent "In the Wild" post , the first book dedicated solely to YUI has hit the shelves: Dan Wellman's Learning the Yahoo! User Interface Library from Packt Publishing. Dan takes on a broad subset of topics in this volume. Dan...