Product DescriptionThe Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML, and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses. This book covers all released components whether utility, control, core file, or CSS tool. Methods of the YAHOO Global Object are used and discussed throughout the book. The basics of each control will be presented, along with a detailed example showing its use to create complex, fully featured, cross-browser, Web 2.0 user interfaces. Besides giving you a deep understand of the YUI library, this book will expand your knowledge of object-oriented JavaScript programming, as well as strengthen your understanding of the DOM and CSS. You will learn to create a number of powerful JavaScript controls that can be used straight away in your own applications.
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Rating: - Great Book on YUI Library
The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a free resource provided by Yahoo! for web developers. It's a collection of utilities that enable developers to build cross-browser web applications quickly and easily. This library has been around for a few years now and is very extensive. It contains utilities, components, controls (widgets), and CSS tools. This can be very confusing for the developer who has no previous experience with using these types of tools. Even though Yahoo! has some very good online ... Read More
Rating: - A good investment for serious web developers
Learning the Yahoo! User Interface library
Dan Wellman clearly knows the YUI. I had a problem with one of his examples, and sent an email to the publisher. Dan replied with an answer and later responded to direct questions. It is refreshing to find an author who will communicate with the reader on that level,
I found this book to be a good introduction to the Yahoo User Interface with examples on its use. However, it is lacking detailed information on the classes and their methods. ... Read More
Rating: - Learning the Yahoo! User Interface library
It wastes money to buy this book because material on the book very likely come from compiling source from Web. Also A lot of examples on the book don't work. No much work from the author. Reading YUI document is beter than this book. So, I give 1 start. Learning the Yahoo! User Interface library
Rating: - A solid guide to the world of YUI
The Yahoo! User Interface Library (affectionately known as the YUI library) is a free resource provided by Yahoo! for web developers. It's a collection of utilities that enable developers to build cross-browser web applications quickly and easily.
Before coming across this book I had never even heard of the YUI library and I was amazed by how helpful it can be for web developers. The YUI library's "plug and play" utilities allow developers with basic JavaScript knowledge to implement effects ... Read More
Rating: - A good primer to learning the YUI
The Yahoo! User Interface Library sits comfortably amongst its peers, which include Prototype, jQuery and Mootools amongst many others. Arguably it can be said that the YUI library is the king among the JavaScript and CSS-libraries. With a vast number of well documented examples and near 100% compatibility amongst modern browsers, it would be difficult to find a comparable library.
It is one thing to be a well documented library, but it is another to know how to use the libraries to construct ... Read More
- Great Book on YUI Library
- Learning the Yahoo! User Interface library
