Yahoo Opens Up

February 14, 2006 8:49 AM

Toolsfor Web Developers. Yahoo gives away some free stuff for people who want to get into Ajax Development. This seems like a nice addition to the other libraries already available.
posted by empath (12 comments total)

This is good, and it's nice that they're giving stuff back to the open source community. I've always poo-poo'd yahoo, but in my opinion, this gives them mucho whuffie.
posted by seanyboy at 9:22 AM on February 14, 2006

Yeah, I think this is great. Anyone want to help code asynchronous calls to the db on MeFi?
posted by mathowie at 9:39 AM on February 14, 2006

Their design pattern library also has tons of interesting stuff.
posted by kirkaracha at 9:50 AM on February 14, 2006

mathowie: I will! Seriously, that'd be a fun (if a bit extensive) project. Why don't you organize it?
posted by xmutex at 9:54 AM on February 14, 2006

I'd like to help, too.

Yahoo's graded browser support and table of browser grades explain their concept of browser support.
posted by kirkaracha at 10:03 AM on February 14, 2006

TIBCO has just released a free version of the General Interface AJAX toolkit as well.
posted by mach at 10:43 AM on February 14, 2006

It's not just AJAX, there's a lot of animation, interaction and general UI/DOM stuff too.
posted by influx at 12:16 PM on February 14, 2006

Can you pick and choose, or is there just a vast library that you have to append to your site?
posted by Artw at 12:33 PM on February 14, 2006

don't forget dojo.
posted by folktrash at 12:58 PM on February 14, 2006

Can you pick and choose, or is there just a vast library that you have to append to your site?

Both: "You can download the Yahoo! UI Library as a complete package or use only the components you need."
posted by kirkaracha at 2:24 PM on February 14, 2006

Boy, there's some kick-ass stuff out there in javascript. I had no idea.

Now all you html developers can come under the opprobium that us flash developers have had to deal with for daring to make stuff move.....
posted by lumpenprole at 3:45 PM on February 14, 2006

Lumpenprole: The problem with flash is that its not accessible, not semandtic, not standards compliant, and not indexible.

The animation is not the problem.
posted by empath at 6:44 AM on February 15, 2006