Comments on: Yahoo! UI and DP Libraries Updated

By: ajking

ajking — Thu, 11 May 2006 14:40:15 +0000

Just a sideways comment as a fan of computing in general, programming in particular: if there is ever a Computing Hall of Fame, I would hope to see Brendan Eich in it. JavaScript’s creator must be very proud to see his “baby” doing everything from providing the user-scripting in Acrobat, Illustrator and Photoshop to driving server-side apps to being the foundational tool for “Web 2.0″ development through AJAX, etc. etc. Of course, Brendan would probably bow in the direction of Kernighan and Ritchie for the source of his inspiration, but you don’t generally see as much excitement being generated over C libraries as we witness over things like Prototype or the Yahoo! releases. Very cool.

By: sidhighwind

sidhighwind — Thu, 11 May 2006 13:34:30 +0000

Yahoo! is the best. I’m considering starting to use the Y! library instead of the prototype library on my personals sites. so much good javascript and design patterns.

By: polvero

polvero — Wed, 10 May 2006 20:52:32 +0000

This release was a much anticipated release as there were quite a few updates to the libraries themselves. Just go through some of the change logs and you’ll see what’s been added and fixed and I’m sure developers will be most pleased with it.

The best part about all the utilities is that when properly minified and sent with the proper compression, none of them go beyond 2.5k (which just rules).

One of my favorite updates particularly was to the DOM util which just added a “getElementsBy” method – which pretty much says “Hey, we’re not here to invent the next getElementsBySomeThing, instead we’re going to give you the tools to do it yourself.” Basically what it does is it allows you to pass in your own (boolean) method, and let that determine which elements are valid.

You’ll notice in the getElementsByClassName() function that it natively uses the getElementsBy() by just creating a regular expression that tests against the className, returns it into a method, then sends the method to the getElementsBy(). It really is quite clever.

By: babyboy808

babyboy808 — Wed, 10 May 2006 20:19:42 +0000

Just tried a few of them, and they are brillaiant. Excellent Stuff

By: coffee_ninja

coffee_ninja — Wed, 10 May 2006 13:01:14 +0000

Where have they been all my life :)

By: LiQ

LiQ — Wed, 10 May 2006 08:43:50 +0000

Come on Kevin, stop hiding in the DHTML-corner. Your all on about AJAX (both positive and negative, which is very good), but please cover some .NET AJAX. That would be Atlas. It’s about time for an article or a longer blog covering the ups and downs.

By: Matthew Magain

Matthew Magain — Wed, 10 May 2006 06:47:11 +0000

Wow, Yahoo have really been busy and have put a lot of thought into this. Awesome stuff. And so nicely presented too.