Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog) » Development http://www.yuiblog.com/blog The official blog of the YUI Project. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:22:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 YUI: Open Hours Thurs Feb 2nd http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/01/31/yui-open-hours-thurs-feb-2nd/ http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/01/31/yui-open-hours-thurs-feb-2nd/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:28:33 +0000 Luke Smith http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/01/31/ 3.5.0pr2 is available

We deployed the second 3.5.0 preview release right on time, celebrated for a couple minutes, then went back to work on PR3, which will be the gating preview before 3.5.0 GA in mid-March.

But we’ll stop to take a breath and highlight some of the changes in PR2. You’ve read the short list on the release blog post, so join us for a little more detail and probably some live tinkering.

As is the case with all preview releases, we’re eager to get your feedback and any bugs you find. Or if you’re note yet convinced to give it a try before the GA, maybe we can convince you.

Recording

The recording is available in the YUILibrary YouTube channel.

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YUI 3.5.0 Preview Release 2 has been released to the developer community for feedback and testing. It is now available on the Yahoo! CDN at yui.yahooapis.com/3.5.0pr2/build/yui/yui-min.js, or as a download if you plan to test it locally.

The rollup of 3.5.0 changes introduced up until PR2 is available on our GitHub Wiki. You can also review the list of tickets that were resolved in this release.

Work-in-progress user guides and API docs for 3.5.0 can be found on our staging site, but beware that these docs may be incomplete or even broken, since this is where we test new stuff. Official docs for the latest stable release can always be found on our production site, yuilibrary.com.

Some highlights in this release include:

  • New HTML5 File Uploader with Flash fallback
  • Major DataTable refactor. If you’re a DataTable user, please read the user guide for details about API changes.
  • CSS Button, Button and ButtonGroup modules
  • Many bug fixes and feature enhancements for App Framework components

To file bugs against this release, please visit our bug tracking system. If you’d like to provide input on these and future modules, the ongoing discussions on various topics relating to the 3.5.0 release are happening on our GitHub wiki.

We will release YUI 3.5.0 GA in mid-March. Happy testing!

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Links

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Links

]]> http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/01/17/video-yuiconf2011-rcannon/feed/ 0 YUI: Open Hours Thurs Jan 19th http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/01/17/yui-open-hours-thurs-jan-19th/ http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/01/17/yui-open-hours-thurs-jan-19th/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:57:15 +0000 Luke Smith http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/01/17/ 3.5.0 DataTable update

A lot of progress has been made for 3.5.0 DataTable, and we want to show and tell the latest status of the code and API. There’s plenty left to do, but we’re excited for the new state of the art and want to make sure what’s coming will meet your needs and expectations.

With a couple weeks left before 3.5.0 PR2 (scheduled for Jan 30th), there’s still time to add features and polish, and the whole of PR3 to stress test and optimize, so things are looking good.

We’ll cover what’s there today, what will be there for PR2 and PR3, and what the feature roadmap is for upcoming versions. We’ll dive into the code, talk about changes to the API, module structure, and table markup.

Recording

The recording is available in the YUILibrary YouTube channel.

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Links

]]> http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/01/11/video-yuiconf2011-donnelly/feed/ 1 YUI: Open Hours Thurs Jan 12th http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/01/09/yui-open-hours-thurs-jan-12th/ http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/01/09/yui-open-hours-thurs-jan-12th/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:21:20 +0000 Luke Smith http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/01/09/ YUI 3.5.0 Button (and more?) update

Welcome to 2012! We’re starting this year off easy, talking about buttons. Y.Buttons to be exact. Derek Gathright will be joining us to give the latest details on the classes and modules for creating YUI style buttons, what’s available today and where, what’s coming up, and reviewing some of the unique challenges of creating something as simple as a button.

If we have time in the hour, we might talk about DataTable’s development status as well, since that’s consuming most of my time and attention these days.

Time & Details

We’ll be online on Thursday from 10am to 11am PST.

Recording update

There were technical complications this week (aka, Luke’s lack of AV skills), and the recording wasn’t salvageable. Derek was kind enough to share his talking points, with links, in this gist: https://gist.github.com/1599415.

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Links

]]> http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/01/03/video-yuiconf2011-burtoft/feed/ 0 YUI Theater — Jeff Craig: “Demystifying Loader: Advanced Module Configuration” (31 min.) http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2011/12/16/video-yuiconf2011-jeffcraig/ http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2011/12/16/video-yuiconf2011-jeffcraig/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:10:43 +0000 Ryan Grove http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2011/12/16/ In this talk from YUIConf 2011, Meebo engineer and YUI contributor Jeff Craig (@foxxtrot) reveals everything you’ve always wanted to know about the YUI Loader but were afraid to ask. This is a must-see for anyone doing performance-critical work with YUI 3.

Links

]]> http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2011/12/16/video-yuiconf2011-jeffcraig/feed/ 0 YUI: Open Hours Thurs Dec 15th http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2011/12/13/yui-open-hours-thurs-dec-15th/ http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2011/12/13/yui-open-hours-thurs-dec-15th/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:59:58 +0000 Eric Ferraiuolo http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2011/12/13/ YUI 3.5.0 PR1

YUI 3.5.0 PR1 is now available! This is the first of three Preview Releases for 3.5.0.

For this Open Hours we’ll be highlighting what’s in PR1 and discussing how you can get involved to make sure 3.5.0 is rock solid. We’ll also be asking for a show-of-hands from the awesome developers who’ve already started using 3.5.0 PR1 (which is on the CDN). Come Thursday, don’t get caught with your hand down :)

Also, the YUI Library Staging site has been updated with the newest user guides and API docs, and in response to the feedback from the last Open Hours, we’re now using our GitHub wiki to track ongoing development discussions.

Recording

The recording is available on the YUILibrary YouTube channel.

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