YUI Blog

Editor's Note: We understand that Yahoo!'s user interface isn't all about the YUI Library , and there are exciting projects happening here that do great work in the browser without much YUI usage. Though almost all development at Yahoo! is now using...

Recently I posted some examples of how YUI is being put to use within Yahoo . Another point of interest for those of us involved with the YUI Library and community is how the library is being used outside of Yahoo. Members of the Yahoo! Group...

The richness revolution on the web is about improving the user experience. A richer interface can feel faster and more responsive because it can bring users closer to their data and to powerful tools for enhancing, filtering, or sharing that data....

Since the YUI Library was released under an open-source BSD licence in February, we've gotten a lot of questions about YUI. One of the questions we've fielded more than any other, though, is also one of the best and most relevant: Who at Yahoo! is...

In the two months since our last release , the YUI Team has been hard at work improving the library, optimizing code, and working with our colleagues at Yahoo! as they've launched numerous products using YUI as a foundation. The new Yahoo! Front...

All of us at Yahoo! were excited this spring when long-time web developer and blogger Christian Heilmann joined our increasingly deep and talented frontend engineering team in London. Christian had been working for etoys, had been involved in the...

Comprehensive documentation for the YUI Library is found online at the YUI section of the Yahoo! Developer Connection website . To supplement this online documentation, the YUI development team has begun drafting some cheat sheets — inspired by the...

JavaScript, as realized in browsers, is a load-and-go programming language. Programs are delivered to the execution site as text. This is a good fit for the web, which is at its root a text delivery system. The program text is eval 'd, which...

Joe Hewitt , a longtime Mozilla/Firefox engineer and the author of DOM Inspector, recently made a return to frontend development after many years working on browser code. He found that the state of the art in terms of tooling hadn't advanced much...

Luke Wroblewski (formerly eBay patterns; current Yahoo!), Jenifer Tidwell (author of Designing Interfaces & Common Grounds pattern library), Martijn van Welie (pattern author), James Refell (eBay patterns) and myself (Yahoo! patterns) have started a...