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Yahoo! Releases OSS Ajax and Design Tools

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hey-we-should-check-those-out dept.

Cocteaustin writes "Today Yahoo! released the Yahoo! User Interface Library. This library is comprised of a number of dynamic HTML utilities and controls for building rich web UIs and Ajax applications. They are made available under an open-source license. In addition, Yahoo! released the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. This collection of design patterns for Web interaction is intended to provide Web designers prescriptive guidance to help solve common design problems on the Web. Both are free in both senses of the word."

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  1. Yahoo is the new Google? by Teetow · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So, while Google is expanding its new evil empire, Yahoo is courting indie developers? Strange days on planet earth...

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    1. Re:Yahoo is the new Google? by m50d · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yahoo has always been like this, it's just people didn't notice while google was the new hotness. Seriously, they seem to be doing the Right Thing, and it's about time they got some recognition.

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    2. Re:Yahoo is the new Google? by stupidfoo · · Score: 5, Informative

      Very true. Their developer APIs are the best of any major offering.

      Check them out here

      Their stated goal is to have startups use their APIs as the foundation for new sites/tech.

  2. Re:"Library", are you kidding me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I take it you haven't actually downloaded the code then. There are libraries for animation, DOM manipulation, drag and drop, XMLHttpRequest management and event handling (in addition to the slider, treeview and calendar widgets). That's 30 JS files, not including the examples. That's nearly 10,000 lines of code!

    It's fully documented as well.

  3. this is not a widget library by Gopal.V · · Score: 5, Informative
    The important peices are *NOT* about widgets. This is about the ygPos,ygAnim and ygDom libraries which are invaluable to most people (at least me).
    The animation systems are actually pretty awesome. The cacheTween() functionality in there takes it very close to what I've been doing with flash previously.

    Morover, Y! has been using these for the past 6 months on different browsers before they open sourced. That part is really what most people look at.

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