V – day!?

Guess we are married for too long, I remembered only when the bank called Swati and told that the client’s payment has come in… been playing around with the Yahoo! UI Library it is pretty cool but I do not think that we are going to drop what we already use, the Y! library is about 8 months too late. Besides, it does not have anything drastically new in terms of widgets or for that matter ease of programming.

But if you happen to have lived beneath some rock till now and have not tried your hand at the so called *web2.0* (I hate that phrase) you can start with this one – lots of documentation available.

I would really like to see this expanded into a complete widget toolkit, right now it looks like the widgets were put in as a second thought to differentiate it from the current world favourite Javascript framework – https://script.aculo.us

BTW, if you happen love AJAX (damn! another buzzword) but hate to do all DOM rewriting manually and further hate writing JS in your PHP or vice versa – try out https://taconite.sf.net

  • The widgets have been in there for about a year, and there are more to come. One of the things that the Y! utils do that others don’t do well is memory management. The yui utils ensure that memory doesn’t leak in any browser.

    • In that case memory management part should be advertised more prominently. That alone could be a point for me to use it in some of my projects.

      Tell me more about it 😀

      • yeah, there are a few things I’d like emphasised a bit more.

        about memory management, get a tool like drip to check for leaks in IE while you run your app. The yui guys have gotten that number down to 0. Same with the page to page memory usage (how much memory is held from an unloaded page). Do your own benchmarks. Don’t trust anyone else’s.

        • Do your own benchmarks. Don’t trust anyone else’s.
          Yeah! I am having the guys run some tests on the drag and drop and connection manager… looking forward to more widgets

          • what’s your widget wish list? Also, remember that this is foss, and you can contribute stuff back 😉

            I’ll see about how that can be made possible.

            • Right now top-most in my wishlist is a Window widget which has scriptable controls and a sane method to connect it to a content URI a desktop widget where these Windows can be aggregated is next….

              BTW, Am lurking on the yui lists, I presume the blog + list will be the right place to watch for updates?

              • yup, also post feature requests there