Web Info & Tutorials

The YUI team pushed out another release of the Yahoo! UI library. This release contains a number of enhancements to existing controls:

• DataTable: CSS updates for better support of resizable columns and resolution of selection model issues as a result of eliminating ambiguous ID and index usage
• Rich Text Editor: Additional methods, CSS updates for easier customization, performance enhancements, and bug fixes
• Container: Updates to Z-index handling, ordering of containers rendered to the document’s Body element, and bug fixes
• Grids: Improved precision and consistency of margins in nested grids
• Slider: Updates to event handling

Catch the full details of this release at the YUI blog and download this new release at the YUI download page.

Kevin Miller has updated his accordion with a new release.

The new version also builds on Script.aculo.us and includes:

• Open/Close functionality added (Click on an active accordion)
• Nested Vertical Accordions
• Accordions will dynamically resize on content added REAL TIME!

Usage

Markku Uttula was tasked with Excel-like freeze pane functionality, which seems like it would be as simple as a few fixed positions.

He ended up with a piece of code that allows you to take almost any table, choose a cell to use as a pivot, and be done with it via:

Google Docs has been updated with a new show enter type:

Starting today, presentations — whether imported from existing files or created using the newborn motion application — are traded alongside documents and spreadsheets in the Google Docs writing list. They crapper be edited, shared, and publicised using the old Google Docs interface, with individual collaborators employed on a motion embellish simultaneously, in actual time. When it’s instance to present, participants crapper only utter a unification to study along as the advocator takes the conference finished the slideshow. Participants are adjoining finished Google Talk and crapper chitchat most the show as they’re watching.

Building applications same these with WYSIWYG redaction ever pushes the limits of browsers, so it is engrossing to wager them at work. The key for the show lateral of things is of instruction the cooperation features that we are every utilised to from docs and spreadsheets. Oh, and you crapper embed them too.