The other day I was doing some work on a website and I thought it would be really nice to add voting functionality to the site. And what better tool to use than YUI to handle all the java script interaction.
Microsoft just released the Microsoft Ajax Minifier for minifying javascript files. Since I've been using the Yahoo! UI Library: YUI Compressor for .Net to do this in AtomSite, I thought it would be great to compare the two to see which is best. I'm mainly interested in the file size reduction but it would be nice to know any speed differences as well.
Ajax stands for “Asynchronous Javascript And XML”. The interactions between client and server in the standard web applications are “synchronous”. This means that one request has to wait for other to complete.
As a developer, I hate writing similar code for the same process over and over again. Just like highly optimized database design, developers should always try to write code as efficiently as possible.
Some weeks back at work we had a political debate featuring the leaders of the 8 biggest political parties in Norway. The event was streamed live on the net via VGTV (our internet “TV channel”).
jQuery may be the cool kid on the block when it comes to JavaScript libraries, but there are a number of serious contenders out there—not the least of which is Yahoo’s YUI (Yahoo User Interface) library. It includes a full range of functionality: DOM manipulation, Ajax helpers, rich interface widgets … the works!
I created YUI 2 login widget, imYUILogin, for an intranet project that I am working on. I originally created it as a Dialog Container, but I recently updated it so that it could be configured as a Panel or a Module. Logging in is done ajaxally, of course.
We all know that using alert in a finished application is not good design, but we often overlook this for the ease of using alert. Well, over at YUICoder they have put together a good post on replacing alert with a YUI dialog box.
The YUI library has one of the longest release cycles around but when they put out a release, the team definitely makes it worth it. Yahoo! just released YUI v2.4.0 with a host of new features that will surely please the YUI faithful.
YUI, the Yahoo! UI Library is one of my favorite Web 2.0-style JavaScript libraries. It has fewer out-of-the-box features than some other libraries, e.g., scriptaculous, but it has great cross-browser support and a very solid, extensible foundation.
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