Q: What's the best way to communicate a pattern? Jenifer Tidwell Interaction designer/software developer, The MathWorks Author, Designing Interfaces Curator, UI Patterns and Techniques Patterns communicate design ideas from one designer to another....
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Q: What is your background in front-end engineering? I have been doing web development since 1995. Most of my experience has been in building corporate web applications. I have also been involved in some high profile public sites such as compare.net...
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Iain Lamb, co-founder of iconic webmail startup Oddpost and currently part of Yahoo's DHTML/Ajax Evanglism team, gave the concluding talk at last week’s Developer Day sessions . Iain talked about the set of skills and tools hackers need to hack in...
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YUI developer Matt Sweeney gave one of the featured talks at last week's Developer Day sessions leading into Hack Day . Matt, who has authored the YUI's Animation Utility and most of the Dom Collection , is one of the lead CSS architects at Yahoo!...
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Yahoo's first Developer Day and Open Hack Day is well underway, with the Developer Day talks and workshops done and hacking now in seriously caffeinated progress. There was big news yesterday: Yahoo! Mail — with 247 million users — announced an API,...
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One of JavaScript's best features is the ability to augment the built-in types. If we want to add a new method to a type, we simply assign a function to the type's prototype . So, if I think that JavaScript strings should have a trim method (and...
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October 6 update: We've posted videos from two of the featured speaker sessions last at the Yahoo Developer Day: Matt Sweeney : "Web 2.0: Getting It Right the Second Time" explores the philosophy of frontend engineering architecture for modern web...
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Note : Full schedule for the Developer Day presentations and workshops can be found elsewhere on YUIBlog; check out the Hack Day website and the Hack Day Blog as well for more information on the event. YUI Developer (and after-hours DJ) Matt Sweeney...
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We released a minor update to the YUI Library today, fixing more than a dozen bugs across the suite. This brings YUI to version 0.11.3. You can download the update, along with comprehensive release notes, from SourceForge . (You can read more about...
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We published a paper titled Graded Browser Support (GBS) alongside the YUI Library release in February. Called " logical and simple, but also profoundly practical " by the Web Standards Project's (WaSP) Group Lead, GBS rejects the customary "you...
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