A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
To celebrate the launch of the public beta of the new Yahoo! home page , I want to peel back the interface and point out a few things of interest to developers. First of all, I'm very proud that the new Yahoo! home page uses the open-source Yahoo!...
The yahoo.com home page team has been very busy over the last few months testing the new home page to create a richer experience for our users. There are many challenges to changing any home page. Just imagine the challenges with changing the most...
In this release of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library we are offering a set of 11 patterns for creating visual transitions. These come under the umbrella of the Transition pattern. There is no doubt that visual transitions can be abused. In fact,...
With the widespread acceptance of Ajax (and the resurgence of Flash) new ways of interacting on the web have emerged. In many ways, these interactions are not new. Interactions like drag and drop and inline editing have been mainstream on desktop...
I’m very happy to announce today a whole bunch of new stuff in both the Yahoo! Design Patterns Library and the Yahoo! User Interface Library. On the design side, there are more than a dozen new patterns (as well as oft-requested examples for some...
JavaScript's with statement was intended to provide a shorthand for writing recurring accesses to objects. So instead of writing ooo.eee.oo.ah_ah.ting.tang.walla.walla.bing = true; ooo.eee.oo.ah_ah.ting.tang.walla.walla.bang = true; You can write...
XMLHttpRequest can operate synchronously or asynchronously. Many people prefer to use it synchronously. When used this way, the JavaScript engine is blocked until the interaction with the server is complete. Because it blocks, the flow of control...
JavaScript is a load-and-go language. Programs are delivered to the execution site as text (not as executable or semi-compiled class files) where it is compiled and executed. JavaScript works well with the Web, which is a text delivery system,...
When we set out about a year ago to build the Yahoo! User Interface Library , we had a specific set of challenges to address. First and foremost, we wanted to enable our front-end engineers to spend more time working on advanced, product-specific...
I'm excited to announce that today we are releasing the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library to the public under a friendly Creative Commons License . The goal in releasing this library is for us to share the common patterns that we see emerging at Yahoo!...