A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
We released version 2.2.0 of the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI) today. This release is one of the most substantial revisions we've done to the library since its inception. Leading the change manifest is a new versioning track and three brand-new...
OurStory.com is a company that's gotten a lot of good press in the past year and enjoyed another recent boost with its participation in Demo '07 . In the video below you'll get a good sense of what the OurStory product is about — if you imagine a...
At what point did you begin evolving your application to use a rich interface? What were the original tools/libraries you used? The company from day one started as a Web 2.0-focused project, but we didn't have the engineering resources to create...
This month the YUI Library turns one year old. When we started last year I wrote that I was "thrilled to have you with us." That's never been truer than it is today. We owe an outstanding first year to you. Libraries aren't achievements themselves...
Firebug 1.0 hit the wires at Mozilla on Wednesday night and Firebug's author Joe Hewitt of Parakey Inc. stopped by Yahoo! Thursday to debut the new features. Joe was kind enough to let us record his talk, and we're pleased to share that with you in...
I've shared on YUIBlog and in the YUI Theater two presentations created by Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford ( "Advanced JavaScript" and "An Inconvenient API: The Theory of the Dom" ). Today I'm happy to announce that Douglas's more...
Frontend engineering rocks right now. The era of boring web sites is over and we're all into pushing the envelope, erasing boundaries and getting beyond whatever prevents us from building the next killer web application. New companies building...
SmugMug is a four-year-old service that provides online photosharing to high-end, high-touch customers — professional and avocational photographers who care deeply about the presentation of their photographic assets. Headquartered in Mountain View,...
Version 0.12.2 of the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI) was released this morning. This minor update focuses on bugs and issues raised since 0.12.1; no new features are introduced in this release. Among the improvements you'll notice in 0.12.2...
This is the second in a series of articles describing experiments conducted to learn more about optimizing web page performance. You may be wondering why you're reading a performance article on the YUI Blog. It turns out that most of web page...