A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
Tell us a little bit about Nestoria's product — what problems are you solving for your users? We're a search engine for property in Spain and the UK ( http://www.nestoria.es , http://www.nestoria.co.uk ). We focus on one thing and one thing only —...
Nate Koechley is the author of the YUI Library 's CSS components — Reset , Fonts , Grids , and Base . Nate has been at Yahoo since 2001 where he was among the first pure web developers. During the past six years, he's helped guide the formation of a...
Peter-Paul Koch (PPK) is one of the best-known figures in the world of frontend engineering because over the years he has tirelessly tilted against the windmills of browser quirks. His quirksmode blog has the canonical articles on many subjects; for...
Dennis Muhlestein of AllMyBrain.com has posted a nifty integration of the YUI Rich Text Editor with the file upload feature of the YUI Connection Manager . [The YUI] RTE has a great dialog for modifying images. You can't use it to upload images from...
For the past two years, Bill Scott worked at Yahoo in a variety of capacities: Ajax Evangelist, Design Pattern Librarian, Engineering Manager for Yahoo! Teachers, and more. Bill set sail earlier this month for Netflix, where he is now the Director...
The single most important concept to master when designing mobile device interfaces is "context". The context in which an application is used and the context of how information is input are both key issues; each must be understood before a well...
Don't miss Part One of this series , in which Satyam explores practical steps on getting started with the YUI DataTable Control . In a previous article I wrote about how to get started with your own implementation of the DataTable component. In this...
From a frontend engineering perspective, what are the core challenges you face in your work on Gaia Online? Gaia is very graphically oriented by comparison to the typical web site, with a focus on avatars and a virtual world experience. As a result,...
We're pleased to announce today the release of YUI version 2.3.1, a minor release that is characterized by bug fixes and performance improvements throughout the library. Several dozen bugs are addressed in 2.3.1. The new release is available for...
There have been many influential articles about event-driven programming within the web browser , and developers are increasingly using this technique. But there is room to push the approach even further, and with it the capabilities of our web...