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It’s been a year since Yahoo! released it’s JavaScript and CSS libraries to the open-source world. Millions of web pages are now using these scripts and Yahoo! is inviting its users to come to its campus for a party. The YUI blog has the following invitation: Join us Thursday, February 22nd, from 5:30 to 8:30 [...]

In December, I made a number of predictions for the 2007. I confidently predicted that Gez Lemon would discover a solution to AJAX accessibility issues. Gez had earlier defined the virtual buffer’s role in JAWS. Understanding the virtual buffer is essential for empowering screen reader users, particularly considering the number of Web 2.0 applications that [...]

The standardistas were abuzz a year ago with hopeful predictions for the coming year. Visions of sugar plums dropping rounded corners, AJAX, and alpha transparent pngs danced through their heads. 2006 has been a great year for web development. Did we get what we wanted? Did we get too much of what we wanted? Further, [...]

The IE7 team has announced “great fixes to our (JavaScript) engine to improve the garbage collection routine and to reduce unbounded memory growth.” They have also found many sites using less than optimal scripting patterns and have some great advice on fine-tuning your JavaScript. The following tips could increase your site download speeds from 4-10 [...]

The Yahoo! platform developers work continuously to make the YUI libraries as bulletproof as possible. Don’t pass up on this opportunity to have top-quality interactions that scale to enormous traffic, are platform independent, and evolve with new technology and concepts. Remember, they’re built for Yahoo! first and then offered to you for free. They’ve got [...]