Yahoo! announced some cool stuff last week. In his blog post Yahoo! UI JavaScript treats Simon Willison writes
The Yahoo! Developer Network was updated yesterday with a veritable gold-mine of Exciting New Stuff, coinciding with the launch of the brand new Yahoo! User Interface Blog. # Here are some of the highlights: # Mature, extensively tested cross-browser JavaScript libraries for animation, event handling, DOM wrangling, XMLHttpRequestDrag and Drop. # and CSS-skinnable UI controls built on those libraries: Calendar, Slider and TreeView. # A library of documented design patterns for modern web applications. # A description of Yahoo!'s Graded Browser Support policy, which should be of great interest to anyone who cares about Web Standards, semantic HTML, accessibility, progressive enhancement and unobtrusive JavaScript. # The code is all under a BSD Open Source license, which means you can use it freely in your own projects, including for commercial development. #
The Yahoo! Developer Network was updated yesterday with a veritable gold-mine of Exciting New Stuff, coinciding with the launch of the brand new Yahoo! User Interface Blog. #
Here are some of the highlights: #
Mature, extensively tested cross-browser JavaScript libraries for animation, event handling, DOM wrangling, XMLHttpRequestDrag and Drop. # and
CSS-skinnable UI controls built on those libraries: Calendar, Slider and TreeView. #
A library of documented design patterns for modern web applications. #
A description of Yahoo!'s Graded Browser Support policy, which should be of great interest to anyone who cares about Web Standards, semantic HTML, accessibility, progressive enhancement and unobtrusive JavaScript. #
The code is all under a BSD Open Source license, which means you can use it freely in your own projects, including for commercial development. #
This is a fantastic contribution to the Web developer community by Yahoo!. It's taken me a week to blog about it because I wanted to try it out first. Unfortunately I still haven't gotten around to trying out the code but I decided to give it a shout out anyway. This is basically what I expected Microsoft to provide developers with Atlas but not only has Yahoo! done it first, it has done so in a way that is completely free (as in speech and as in beer). Wow.
The folks at Yahoo! are definitely understand what it means to build a developer platform and a developer community on the Web. Kudos to everyone involved in getting this out.