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By chrismills anchor Thursday, 27. September 2007, 10:02:42

Progressive Enhancement and the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)

As a web developer, you'll know exactly how annoying it can be getting your sites to work consistently across all browsers and devices. Yahoo! have had the same problem as you, which is why they developed the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) to give you a solid set of solutions to cross browser issues. In this article, Yahoo! web developer Christian Heilmann discusses cross browser problems, how progressive enhancement helps you, and what the YUI has to offer.

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By FataL anchor Thursday, 27. September 2007, 17:10:03

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The other cool feature of the YUI is that it comes as a hosted version...
I would add to 3 already mentioned benefits a probability that some sites would link to the same library in the same place and then browser will use already cashed version of library. So, it's definitely can speed up loading of some pages.

Post edited Thursday, 27. September 2007, 17:59:27

By chrismills anchor Friday, 28. September 2007, 10:34:12

avatarThat's a good point - thanks FataL!

By dstorey O anchor Saturday, 29. September 2007, 11:58:11

avatarAnother benefit is that if there are bugs in YUI, with a hosted version, I can get Nate or someone else in the YUI team to fix the issue and it will be fixed for all sites using the script. Without using the hosted version, the sites will not be fixed until tey update to the latest version.

By FataL anchor Monday, 1. October 2007, 16:54:45

avatarIntroducing YUI - The Rising Giant (Smashing Magazine)

By jmudya anchor Thursday, 22. November 2007, 11:00:46

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Originally posted by chrismills:

That's a good point - thanks FataL!
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It completely agree

By Profesjonalna anchor Friday, 28. December 2007, 21:06:59

avatarFataL - thank for Smashing Magazine link - it's really good article!

By jonyellow anchor Saturday, 5. January 2008, 12:01:31

avatarFataL is absolutely right here, the hosted version of YUI can really speed up performance and page loading times.

By JoFricks anchor Thursday, 17. January 2008, 11:06:56

avatarwithout a question an excellent article at smashing magazin. thank you FataL for the hint.

By Jo-Hanna anchor Saturday, 19. January 2008, 11:42:12

avatarafter the "dead" of the netscape navigator the cross-browser problems gonna be much smaller. anyway opera rock. btw. really good article but i don´t work much with the yahoo-thingy.

By duncanbrown anchor Wednesday, 23. January 2008, 22:56:04

avatarThanx for the link FataL. Very useful article

By JoFricks anchor Friday, 25. January 2008, 11:30:44

avatarthe introducing YUI is nice to read but how many of you have some experience with the Yahoo UI? is it worth to took some time to learn more about it? at time i´m going to learn more about the opera widgets thingy because it looks really interesting.

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