Friday, September 17th, 2010
Progressive enhancement is still a confusing matter for a lot of people who are very excited about the capabilities of JavaScript in modern browser environments. It can feel anachronistic to write your solutions for a non-JS environment and then once more enhances in JavaScript. I grew up like that so for me it is a Read the rest…
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Category: YUI
The Yahoo! YUI is an incredibly feature-rich JavaScript library with a LOT of functionality but getting your head around all of those features can be tough. The YUI team wants to help developers get up and running more quickly and announced yesterday the release of SimpleYUI; a basic and more streamlined version of the YUI Read the rest...
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Category: Browsers, CSS
, JavaScript
, Library
, YUI
Over at the the YUI blog the team just announced the preview release of YUI 3.2.0. YUI3 now has some interesting new features that the team wants you to try and tell them if they work out for you. The changes to the already very powerful library are quite ambitious: Touch event support for mobile Read the rest...
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Dav Glass did some cool work with YUI and the server when he got it running on Node.js and then got the DOM working. Having the DOM available is important as it allows you to do interesting things. You can take the same code and render on either client OR server side. NoScript turned on? Read the rest...
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Geolocation functionality is hot. Every app you see now wants to ID where you're at and help you find cool things around you. The great thing is that building this functionality into your applications is getting easier and easier. For example, Eric Ferraiuolo wanted to create an app that showed off the features in YUI Read the rest...
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Category: jQuery, Library
, YUI
I just came across this wonderful Gist on gitHub: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var $; YUI().use('*', function(Y){ $ = Y.get; for(var p in Y) { $[p] = Y[p]; } }); // test $('body').append("boo!"); In case you want to use YUI3 but really really like jQuery syntax :) Read the rest...
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Category: Screencast, Tutorial
, Yahoo!
, YUI
It is amazing how much easier it is these days to build pretty sweet mashups by using hosted services. Here's a screencast of using Yahoo, Bing and Google to build a search interface in under 25 minutes without having to read any API docs or installing SDKs by using YQL: Building a search mashup with Read the rest...
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Microsoft
, YUI
I have discovered only yesterday the Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6) and the Microsoft Ajax Minifier post and using Visual Studio on daily basis I could not miss an instant minifier test. First of all, my apologizes for the wrong tweet and the comment left in the related post. I have spotted a false Read the rest...
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Category: Flash, JavaScript
, Storage
, Yahoo!
, YUI
Yahoo this week announced the new release of the Yahooo User Interface library. This is great because it answers the question if the 2.x library is still being maintained whilst 3.0 is out and buzzing. The detailed release notes for YUI 2.8.0 show that there is indeed a lot of maintenance and improvement still being Read the rest...
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
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