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Yahoo is the new Google

I feel like I've been saying this a lot lately, but while Google seems to be faltering at nearly every step, Yahoo is doing lots of little things that I think will have a big reward soon. Such as releasing their UI Library and their Design Pattern LIbrary. Obviously this isn't something you are going to be interested in unless you are a web developer, but if you are it's a pretty exciting release. The UI Library includes your standard animation effects, AJAX calls, and also a really polished calendar that took me about 20 seconds to incorporate into a web app I'm working on. Everything has been released with a BSD license, which means you can use it for anything anywhere.

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Posted by Mark Allen on Monday, February 13, 2006 Comments (4)

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  1. hey, thanks for the post! It's great to hear that you were able to get the calendar working quickly.

    I'd love to hear about your experience, where you used it, and and feedback or support at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-javascript/

    Thanks again, seeeing people use this stuff is exceptionally motivating.

    Comment by Nate Koechley — February 14, 2006 @ 2:15 am

  2. Double thanks! You're the first blogger I noticed who is using the calendar. :) I second Nate's request for feedback, and I also wanted to give you an example that might interest you: http://www.squeakytoy.net/dev/flickrcal/

    It's a more "extreme" implementation that gives a better idea of how far the calendar can be extended.

    Thanks again!!
    Steven

    Comment by Steven Peterson — February 15, 2006 @ 3:15 am

  3. [...] Think there’s also an interesting story here about the development team that put yui together. In some areas Yahoo! seems to be fumbling the ball and while reading Jeremy’s blog, get the impression of a company being sucked dry by middle management. Despite that, the yui team do seem to have pulled off something pretty impressive—some reading on them here as well as an interview with Thomas Sha (the lead) here. [...]

    Pingback by SitePoint Blogs » Warming up to Yahoo! UI — May 19, 2006 @ 7:21 am

  4. [...] Warming up to Yahoo! UI Kevin’s written a couple or times on Yahoo!’s User Interface Library. With endless new DHTML and AJAX libraries and frameworks being released every week, you could be forgiven for being less-than-excited by yet another. But scanning the slides of Simon’s XTech talk (PDF here) and, in particular, looking at what they’ve done with their Grid CSS stuff (which seems like a major breakthrough for those, like me, that struggle with CSS layouts), finding myself getting really interested. The impression from scanning the code and examples Simon provides in his talk is they’ve really managed to strike the balance between doing too much and too little—that yui has has genuine value but remains “low fat”. Think there’s also an interesting story here about the development team that put yui together. In some areas Yahoo! seems to be fumbling the ball and while reading Jeremy’s blog, get the impression of a company being sucked dry by middle management. Despite that, the yui team do seem to have pulled off something pretty impressive—some reading on them here as well as an interview with Thomas Sha (the lead) here. Anyway—only just starting to experiment / climb the learning curve so no real experiences to offer but if anyone (not employed by Yahoo!) has any notes to share, would be great to hear it. This article provided by sitepoint.com. [...]

    Pingback by Yes Here » Blog Archive » Warming up to Yahoo! UI — May 26, 2006 @ 7:19 am

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