Thursday, October 1, 2009

Yahoo updates its YUI tool for slick Web interfaces


The version 3 for Yahoo User Interface library released on Tuesday by Yahoo, software collection programmers can use to give Web sites with fancy user interface elements written in JavaScript as well as Cascading Style Sheets.

On Tuesday Yahoo’s Eric Miraglia said to a blogspot that "YUI 3's core infrastructure as well as its utility suite is all considered production-ready with today's release". "The code we are shipping today in 3.0.0 is the similar code that drives the new Yahoo Home Page, and it goes out with confidence that it has been exercised forcefully and at scale." Yahoo updates its YUI tool for slick Web interfaces

The YUI libraries are open-source which is freely available, and used widely all around the Internet for Web site tasks together with animation, drag-and-drop, fetching data from various types of sources, and responding towards events--chores that are more complex but that often are helpful as the Web moves from static Web pages toward interactive applications.

Compared with YUI 2, the new version is smaller, quicker, easier to program with, and it is also more secure, Yahoo said. It is very much easy to break code into minimum-size pieces throughout a dependency configurator or YUI's ability to download required components on its own. Moreover, Yahoo is working to add widget abilities for creating smaller programs.

A suitable YUI feature is that Yahoo is willing to host the majority of it on its own servers, saving hassle and Web server bandwidth.

The new version is the first ground-up reworking of the software since 2005. There is no doubt that YUI will be the subject of discussion at Open Hack Day as well as YUIConf, both in October.

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