A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
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....
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...
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...
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!...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...