YUI (Yahoo! UI Library)

CMS: all

Friday - 9:00am - Friday - 10:00am

Description:

The Yahoo! User Interface Library: A Free, Open-Source Foundation for Frontend Development

The open-source CMS ecosystem consists primarily of applications that express themselves within the context of the web browser. No matter how elegant your system, living within the browser means living with the browser's limitations: a crude event model, incomplete standards, inconsistent implementations, and a decade's worth of aging browsers still in use. As JavaScript guru Douglas Crockford puts it, "the browser is a vast source of incompatibility, pain and
misery" for developers.
The Yahoo! User Interface Library helps you manage this complexity by providing you with a free (BSD-licensed), comprehensive, and well-documented toolkit that addresses some of the core problems in web-development discipline. YUI provides:

1. A rational browser-support doctrine;
2. A foundational CSS layer that helps you realize your designs more consistently across different browsers;
3. A set of utilities that help normalize event-driven programming in the browser, including components for Ajax/XMLHttpRequest, Animation, Drag & Drop, and Browser History;
4. UI controls like AutoComplete, Button, DataTable, Dialog, Menu, Panel, Slider, TabView and TreeView that enrich dramatically the sparse UI language that browsers provide;
5. A commitment to addressing hard questions around accessibility in DHTML implementations;
6. Broad community support, with more than 5200 community members in the YUI Forums;
7. The best documentation in the open-source JavaScript world;
8. Free YUI hosting on Yahoo!'s servers;
9. The commitment of Yahoo! and the full-time attention of a team of world-class engineers who are making the library better every day.

Whether you're a core Drupal developer or an engineer working on a specific module, what you do in the browser is what will help you win the loyalty and love of your end users. During this talk, we'll provide a comprehensive introduction to YUI and show you with real examples how YUI can help you transform the projects you're currently working on. And you'll sleep well at night knowing that the JavaScript and CSS you're using is the same robust, performant, scalable code that we deliver every day to Yahoo!
users.

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