Yahoo! User Interface Library

[Matt Kruse]

I just found out about this:
http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/

Some of the utils look interesting, but I've looked at just a few snippets
of code and it's not all that hot, IMO.

Any opinions on the above libs?

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Matt Kruse
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[VK]

Matt Kruse wrote:

I just found out about this:
http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/

Some of the utils look interesting, but I've looked at just a few snippets
of code and it's not all that hot, IMO.

Any opinions on the above libs?

I tested it on drag-drop widget
<http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/dragdrop/index.html>. Quality
drag-n-drop support for non-IE UA's usually is the best burden of proof
of the programming quality.

On the minimum system Win98 SE / 260Mz with Firefox 1.5.0.1 drag-n-drop
is very stable. No one of regular "failure tricks" works (like quick
mouse move on selectable area, drag out of viewport etc. etc.)

Only about 1% of ever written drag-droppers do not have any of these
defaults, specially on slow machines. I would call at least this part
of the library "outstanding" - in the sense "not like 99 of 100" :-)

As a side note I'm not clear now about the relations (if any) between
developer.yahoo.net and Yahoo, Inc.
yahoo.net is registered by Net-Sol for Yahoo, Inc. but I see no one
written credentials on yahoo.net (?)

[Bryan]

In article <11**********************@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups .com>,
"VK" <sc**********@yahoo.com> wrote:

Matt Kruse wrote:

I just found out about this:
http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/

I tested it on drag-drop widget
<http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/dragdrop/index.html>.....

....I would call at least this part
of the library "outstanding" - in the sense "not like 99 of 100" :-)

I just found this. I will look into it in the near future and report
back if anyone is interested.
As a side note I'm not clear now about the relations (if any) between
developer.yahoo.net and Yahoo, Inc.

yes, developer.yahoo.net is the developer web support for Yahoo Inc. I
was just there today.

[Ken Robinson]

Bryan wrote (in part):

yes, developer.yahoo.net is the developer web support for Yahoo Inc. I
was just there today.

And if you sign up for the mailing list at the bottom of the web site,
you get to interact with the Yahoo! developers working on the
libraries. They have been very helpful.

I've been exploring the calendar library and they have answered all of
my questions very well.

Ken Robinson

[TheBagbournes]

Matt Kruse wrote:

I just found out about this:
http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/

We've just discovered this. We're just starting a new web app project.

We've decided to dump Dojo (which looks flaky, and is full of "TODO",
"FIXME", and "this doesn't work" comments) in favour of YUI.

I'm impressed with it. It's not a complete as Dojo, but it seems a *LOT*
more solid.

The design of things like the drag/drop and animation objects are much
better.

The event handling is good, but lacks the AOP capabilities of Dojo (not
that I think we'd need them) Also, it doesn't normalize the passed event
object with regard to obtaining srcElement/target in the way that Dojo does.

I think this could be the one to back.