Web Info & Tutorials

YUI 2.3 has been released with six new components, as well as a skinning architecture and a new look for the components.

Features

• Rich Text Editor: Cross-browser support has always been a major challenge for RTEs, and we think you’ll be impressed with how well this editor works across the various environments. You can instantiate it with just a few lines of code for simple implementations
• Base CSS: Nate Koechley continues to extend and refine the YUI CSS foundation. Base CSS itself applies consistent and common style treatments for the foundation
• YUILoader: A mechanism for loading YUI components (and/or your own custom components) on the page via client-side script.
• ImageLoader: Allows you to defer the loading of some images to speed initial rendering time on your pages.
• ColorPicker: The Color Picker provides a powerful UI widget for color selection, featuring HSV, RGB, and Hex input/output and a web-safe color-selection swatch.
• YUI Test Utility: YUI Test introduces a flexible unit-testing framework for the YUI ecosystem and serves as the foundation for our own unit-test battery.
• Skins

This is Joe Hewitt week. We were fortuitous sufficiency to encounter whatever instance to chitchat with Joe most a myriad of topics.

These topics ranged from:

• Firebug: How Firebug came about, tips and tricks and unseeable toys, and YSlow
• Browsers: We had a recreation chitchat most the story of Firefox, and how Gecko and Webkit study these days
• iPhone: How Joe got fascinated in ambulatory utilization when he never had finished before
• Misc: We also explored topics much as JavaScript 2, and how you crapper invoke yourself into a 24 distance writing machine.

I had a rattling beatific instance chatting with Joe. He is a solidified bloke, and we every provide him a assistance for gift us Firebug.

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