A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
We're pleased to welcome two new members to the YUI team — Mike Lee and Dav Glass . Both are moving from other roles at Yahoo!, and each brings to the team a unique set of talents. Mike has been at Yahoo! since 2002 and is among the small group of...
We held our annual internal frontend engineering conference at Yahoo! earlier this month, and one of our invited guests was Doug Geoffray of GW Micro . Doug came by to teach Yahoo! frontend engineers about the history and current state of...
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We recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of the open-source release of the YUI Library . It is also the one-year anniversary of the public release of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library . Not wanting to miss out on the fun, we published two new...
On February 28, four estimable figures from the world of browser development and frontend engineering took the stage at Yahoo! for an event entitled "Browser Wars Episode II: Attack of the DOMs." The goal was to get representatives from the IE team,...
Yahoo!'s Nicholas Zakas is the author of two excellent books from WROX Press. His fist book, Professional JavaScript for Web Developers , is a volume we rely on at Yahoo! for internal training classes on JavaScript. Nicholas's second book with WROX...
HTTP cookies are used for a variety of reasons such as authentication and personalization. Information about cookies is exchanged in the HTTP headers between web servers and browsers. This article discusses the impact of cookies on the overall user...
What is your background in frontend engineering? I started programming when I was 10, writing a few games in BASIC on my Commodore 64k. When I bought my first PC I started learning Pascal, C/C++ and assembly language. I was on the Polish demo scene,...
Coinciding with this week's release of YUI version 2.2.0, the one year anniversary of the YUI open-source release , and as announced at the YUI Party just moments ago, we're opening up free YUI hosting from the Yahoo! network to all YUI implementers...
Most Ajax Applications Break Standard Browser Functionality Our industry has made significant progress in the past few years. Web pages have become vastly more sophisticated in terms of appearance and responsiveness. Some companies have pushed the...