Yahoo UI Library

Posted on May 11, 2006 One Comment

Y! Purple Saw this announced earlier in the week: Yahoo! grids CSS. Initially I had no clue what this was about until I realized it is just a piece of the Yahoo! UI Library. So there’s something I’d never heard of. Now as a web developer type, I have to look this stuff over and figure out if I care.

The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses. Download the entire library, its documentation and examples from Sourceforge.

Open source and free are just a couple of my favorite concepts! And just part of the Yahoo! Developer Network, something else that I’ve never noticed. I see Design Patterns there too. Lordy.

Next step is to find some reviews or comments from folks who have used this stuff. At first glance, it looks quite intriguing — but is it any good? Will it save me time or will it cost me time as I have to bend my mind to think like the designer? That’s the real question.

Tags: ajax, design, javascript, yahoo