A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
We think the 2.5.0 release of the YUI DataTable Control is our best one yet, so we wanted to take a moment to look back at some of the challenges we've faced over the past few months and to peek under the hood at some of the techniques we've used to...
Satyam, one of the esteemed cornerstones of the YUI community, has been busy since yesterday's YUI 2.5.0 release — his independent examples collection for the DataTable Control is already up-to-date with the 2.5.0 changes that Jenny Han Donnelly and...
The YUI Team just released version 2.5.0 of the library . We've added six new components — Layout Manager , Uploader (multi-file upload engine combining Flash and JavaScript), Resize Utility , ImageCropper , Cookie Utility and a ProfilerViewer...
This post marks the first Graded Browser Support (GBS) update of 2008. It modifies the A-Grade support chart and offers a forecast of likely future changes. The current A-Grade support chart is always on the YUI web site; updates are always...
Julien’s YUI Compressor is an incredibly useful tool for decreasing the size of your JavaScript files. Since it uses Rhino to parse your JavaScript code, it can perform all kinds of smart operations to save bytes in a completely safe way:...
We're getting ready for YUI's 2nd Birthday in a couple of weeks here in Sunnyvale , and we wanted to let you know that Sophie Major and the Yahoo! Developer Network in London are getting ready for a little get-together, too , for those of you who...
At MacWorld 2008 , Steve Jobs announced that Apple sold 4 million iPhones to date, that's 20,000 iPhones sold every day. Net Applications reports that total web browsing on iPhone is up at 0.12% for December 2007, topping the web browsing on all...
In February 2008, the YUI Library and the Yahoo Pattern Library turn two years old. In those short two years, YUI has grown into a richly featured library that embodies some of the best of what HTML, CSS and JavaScript make possible in the browser....
With the help of other members of the Yahoo! Accessibility Stakeholders group, I ran a screen reader test to establish whether links that contain no link text were an accessibility barrier. We tested a number of approaches to hiding links across a...
Here are some of the stories and happenings that have caught our eye since the last "In the Wild" post : YUI's Nate Koechley on the TWiT Podcast : Over on the TWiT network's "Free and Libre Open Source Software" (FLOSS) podcast, Randal Schwartz and...