Tag Archives: YUI
8 Things the YUI Library Needs to Win Me Back
I’ve been cheating on my first love. When I first started seriously JavaScripting and not CopyPasteScripting, my first framework was the Yahoo User Interface Library. I was just beginning to realize the power of a JavaScript framework, but at the time I also thought that the Dom was an actor in Hollywood’s The Cannonball Run. [...]
Posted in JavaScript Tagged YUI
DOMDom, easy DOM Element Creation
Generally when approaching a complex problem involving web programming in JavaScript, the first question I ask myself is ‘What would Jesus do?’ As much as I am entertained by a mental picture of Mr. Jesus himself sitting on his Jesux Distro appending children (and parents) into his DOM, I am instead distracted by an intense [...]
Posted in JavaScript, Projects Also tagged CSS Selectors, DOM, ExtJS
Wake up to YouTube on my Internet Alarm Clock
Update: Try the new ALARMd 2 Beta, with Google Calendar integration and offline Youtube caching. Did you take your contacts out last night and you can’t see the time on your alarm clock from all the way across the room? I’m here to calm your fears. Enter ALARMD, the Internet Alarm Clock. Wake up to [...]
Posted in Interface Design, Projects Also tagged Alarmd, ExtJS
Wash your mouth out with SOAP and the YUI Connection Manager
Now you’ve done it. You watched an R rated movie while your parents weren’t looking and used some of your newfound acquired colorful language in front of them. Your mom goes for the Dial Liquid Soap, she’s going to wash that profanity right out of your dirty little mouth. Harsh? Maybe, but I couldn’t say [...]
Posted in JavaScript Also tagged Ajax, SOAP
YUI DataTable and You: Making the Marriage Work
The DataTable/Grid Component, the ball and chain of GUI components. It doesn’t let you go out and instantiate beers to create a inebriated subclass of yourself with your friends on Friday night. It makes you do household garbage collection during the last minute of your favorite sporting event. And you’d think it would die before [...]
Posted in CSS, JavaScript Also tagged DataTable, Grid
Google Using YUI Grids CSS
Head over to the Google Homepage. Log In using your Google Account. Make sure you’re at your Personalized Homepage. Take a look at the source CSS file ig.css included on the page. There are a few peculiar lines of code that I recognized from another source, the Yahoo User Interface Grids CSS file. Yahoo has [...]
Using DOM Query Libraries in YUI