Yahoo!
Write your own Yahoo! BrowserPlus service with new SDK
Lloyd Hilalel and the Yahoo! BrowserPlus team have released a BrowserPlus SDK which allows you to easily create your own services:
We're extremely happy to announce the availability of the BrowserP ....... read more
17 days ago
RUI is not accessible? Check out Yahoo?s new Currency Converter
I am proud to be able to announce the new currency converter on Yahoo finance. Why? Because it is a perfect example of how a complex rich user interface can be built in an accessible manner.
As th ....... read more
19 days ago
YUI3 PR2 now available - extendable with own widgets and plugins
Over at the YUI blog Satyen Desai just announced the release of YUI3 PR2. The main changes are that the widgets from YUI2 are now all getting ported over to the new, leaner YUI3 architecture and that ....... read more
Wed,
10 Dec 2008
YUI Library, YUI Doc, and Github
Eric Miraglia and our friends at Yahoo! have announced YUI Doc, "a python-based documentation tool that generates API documentation for JavaScript code. YUI Doc was developed by Adam Moore, one of th ....... read more
Tue,
09 Dec 2008
CDNs Gaining Broader Use with JavaScript Libraries
YUI and Google
Most everyone knows that Google has really stepped up to the plate by helping many JavaScript library projects host their builds on the Google AJAX Libraries API. Apart from providing a ....... read more
Thu,
20 Nov 2008
Live Blogging the Yahoo BrowserPlus Release Party
Austin Chau and I are here on the Yahoo campus for the Yahoo BrowserPlus release party. I'm going to blog the event as it happens here (Disclosure: I work for Google with the Open Web Advocacy and Gea ....... read more
Tue,
18 Nov 2008
yboss - a wrapper for Yahoo?s BOSS API
BOSS - Build Your Own Search Service (the your is silent for reasons I cannot tell you as it would endanger the lives of our agents in the field) is a Yahoo! API to access their search index and get t ....... read more
Mon,
10 Nov 2008
Yahoo! home page and YUI 3.0
Nicholas C. Zakas has posted about a new Yahoo! home page that uses YUI 3.x. They are currently testing the new home page out, but having it use the latest and greatest dogfood on a web page as traff ....... read more
Wed,
12 Nov 2008
Yahoo! BrowserPlus Released
Yahoo! has had a big day with a lot of Open platform releases (OpenSocial, YAP, etc) and to add to that they have released Yahoo! BrowserPlus version 2.1.6, which is important as it opens up the Brow ....... read more
Wed,
29 Oct 2008
YUI 2.6.0 Released: Carousels, Paginators, and lots of examples
Nate Koechley has announced YUI 2.6.0 final:
2.6.0 introduces a new Carousel Control, offers the Paginator Control for general use (it was previously bundled with DataTable), includes more than 450 ....... read more
Thu,
02 Oct 2008
Improving Accessibility with Ajax/Javascript - Christian Heilmann, @Media Ajax
Blogging from @media Ajax. Christian Heilman is talking about the interaction of Ajax/Javascript and accessibility.
BTW Christian's arranging an accessibility event, including a hack day, this Friday/ ....... read more
Mon,
15 Sep 2008
Awesome Time Waster: YUI Pacman!
Okay Id like to know how many of the Ajaxian readers are actually old enough to remember real arcade games which required endless amounts of quarters to become good. Yeah, those were the days when ca ....... read more
Mon,
08 Sep 2008
YUI 3: The goals are lighter, faster, consistent, power, secure
YUI 3 has a preview release for us to check out.
The goals are:
lighter (less K-weight on the wire and on the page for most uses)
faster (fewer http requests, less code to write and compile, more e ....... read more
Thu,
14 Aug 2008
Ajax-Alexa-Thumbnails: API to get site thumbnails
Have you ever wanted to be able to easily grab a thumbnail image that represents a website?
Eric Ferraiuolo has created Ajax-Alexa-Thumbnails on Google Code, a library that builds on YUI to do just th ....... read more
Tue,
29 Jul 2008
Getting around the blocking of script
Stoyan Stefanov has a post that discusses the issues with browsers blocking on script tags.
He discusses the general problem and how YUI has a helper for it by using onreadystatechange and onload:
PLA ....... read more
Thu,
24 Jul 2008
Combining JavaScript and CSS for Performance
Tenni Theurer of Yahoo! has a new performance post, this time focused on serving files faster by combining them:
One performance technique without having to simplify the page design is to combine m ....... read more
Wed,
23 Jul 2008
YPulse: Fades and Pulsations Library
Kent Johnson has released YPulse a simple open source wrapper for the YUI Animation library that makes creating highlight fades and pulsing button glows a bit easier.
You pulse away with something lik ....... read more
Fri,
11 Jul 2008
Ojay 0.2: easy keyboarding, a validation DSL, and two new UI widgets
James Coglan has updated Ojay, the chaining wrapper for YUI that we posted on a few months back.
The new release features really simple keyboard and form scripting and couple of new UI widgets, a new ....... read more
Thu,
10 Jul 2008
YUI Autogrid: Correctly resize the grids
Our own Christian Heilmann has created a new JavaScript library Autogrid that marries YUI Grids, the base CSS library, to allow for smart resizing:
I love YUI Grids. I know my CSS and I know how to w ....... read more
Thu,
26 Jun 2008
YSlow now has Firefox 3 support
Keeping in the performance vein, YSlow put a new version out in time for Firefox 3. The new version includes:
Firefox 3 and Firebug 1.2 beta support improved and simplified check for javascript minif ....... read more
Tue,
24 Jun 2008