Charts are a great idea to make rows and rows of boring numbers easier to understand and to take in — for people that can see them. However, not all of your site's visitors can see and you'll also want to keep information you offer available for...
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Back in February 2007, we opened up hosting of YUI files on Yahoo's content delivery network to all users, and we maintain a page describing how you can implement YUI while drawing all of its resources from our network . What we've heard from the...
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As the end of last year was winding up I spent some time tinkering with the open pattern library, in order to clear the way for our latest pattern release, Carousel . One reason why I needed to do this tinkering is that the Carousel pattern contains...
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The YUI Team. From Left: Satyen Desai, Georgiann Puckett, Nate Koechley, Lucas Pettinati, Adam Moore, Douglas Crockford, Thomas Sha (behind the sign), Luke Smith, Matt Sweeney, Jenny Donnelly, and Dav Glass. From everyone on the YUI team here at...
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Image of Victor Tsaran by Stephen Woods ; image of Todd Kloots by Sandy Leung . Used by kind permission. About the Authors: A new YUI example demonstrates how to use the WAI-ARIA Roles and States with YUI's Menu Control . In this article, YUI Menu...
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Julien Lecomte , author of the YUI Compressor and the YUI Browser History Manager , recently gave a talk at Yahoo on the creation of high-performance DHTML applications. In this talk, Julien covers several major performance topics: Developing for...
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In YUI 2.4.0 , we updated the way the Event Utility "cleans up" events in its page unload handler. Regrettably, that change resulted in some events not being properly unloaded, which in turn resulted in IE-specific memory leaks in some YUI...
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Introduction The Yahoo! User Interface Library ships with a few controls such as Calendar or Panel which allow a Javascript programmer to quickly add highly interactive functionality to a web site. As stated in the documentation: The Container...
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Fellow Yahoo Ross Harmes and former Yahoo (current Googler) Dustin Diaz have collaborated on a new book from Apress, Pro JavaScript™ Design Patterns . As the title suggests, this volume focuses on the implementation of common object-oriented design...
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YUI has been in the news a lot the past few weeks. Here are a few of the stories that have caught our attention since Nate's last "In the Wild" post : Responding to the Charts Control: There were many responses to Josh Tynjala's hybrid...
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