Comments on: Yahoo! Redesigned Front Page gets hip to Ajax

By: Charlie Cheng

Charlie Cheng — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:06:25 +0000

Currently, I am using YUI library. Comparing to DOJO, it has much less loading time, it is great for old web system refurbishing. But what about extensibility? Is there anyone know how to extends YUI library or other website talking about that?

By: GÃ¡bor

GÃ¡bor — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:56:05 +0000

It’s no old news, nowadays was the official debute of the redesigned Yahoo! frontpage.

By: Chris Heilmann

Chris Heilmann — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:27:16 +0000

Nate Koechley gave a presentation on the ins and outs at @media in London and the slides are available on his blog:

http://nate.koechley.com/blog/2006/07/12/my_atmedia_2006_slides/

By: Sam Foster

Sam Foster — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:10:42 +0000

Not old to me. I haven’t been to Yahoo in ages. Its interesting to see how it pans out for a very high traffic page – Lots of script and css output straight into the head, heavy use of ids.. strict dtd? And look at this: YAHOO.Fp.$ = function(id){
return (typeof(id)==’string’) ? YAHOO.Fp.d.getElementById(id) : false;
}
var $=YAHOO.Fp.$;
All that griping we hear about these long object chains / namespaces in the Y!UI library (and others). In practical use though you assign to a shortcut variable when you need to use a function repeatedly. There’s lots to chew on here.. is there a write up somewhere? It’d be good to know how much is the result of exhaustive testing, and how much is just a good-enough solution to meet their deadline.

Sam

By: idris

idris — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:48:22 +0000

Isn’t this old news?