A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
We're pleased to announce today the release of YUI version 2.3.0. This release features six new additions to the library as well as a new skinning architecture and a new visual treatment for most of our UI controls. All of this, plus 250...
Joe Hewitt , co-founder of the Firefox project and author of the popular Firebug extension to Firefox, stopped by Yahoo! last week to talk about his latest creation: the iUI JavaScript/CSS library that allows developers to build web applications...
Web browsers have advanced to the point where things happen fairly fast across the board. Events are fired fast, user interactions can be registered fast, code executes fast. All this speed is typically a good thing, as it keeps modern web...
Tell us a little bit about Wikia. What point are you at in the evolution of your product and your company? What is its relationship to Wikipedia? We like to say that Wikia and Wikipedia have the same parents, but that otherwise we're not related. We...
How has the nature of your web-development work for clients changed over the past couple of years, with the move toward more richness and client-side complexity? One of AA|RF's greatest strengths as an agency is in creating compelling user...
With the goal of better understanding how people interact with the Web via various types of Assistive Technology (AT) — and what that might mean for developers and designers — Karo Caran takes us on a 16 minute overview of screen magnification...
Global variables are evil . Within YUI , we use only two globals: YAHOO and YAHOO_config . Everthing in YUI makes use of members within the YAHOO object hierarchy or variables that are scoped to such a member. We advise that you exercise similar...
Douglas Crockford provided a keynote talk for the 2007 Konfabulator Developer Day yesterday. His talk was entitled "Javascript: The Good Parts" — a topic of interest to Konfabulator hackers, much of whose work is done in JavaScript. This talk, now...
With DOM support across all A-grade browsers , many basic (and some complex) interactions can be accomplished with relative ease. Things like adding and removing elements, inserting HTML text, and working with events are now reasonably manageable on...
Tell us a little bit about your background and your current work; you are, among other things, an Apache Foundation contributor, correct? I've been a volunteer ASF committer since 2001 and a Member since 2002. Today, the ASF has about two thousand...