Greetings WOW members and Web professionals everywhere. Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute.
Today?’s podcast is a continuation of the media coverage of the Web Design World Conference that took place in Seattle, WA last week.
I had the pleasure to interview Nate Koechley, Senior Frontend Developer at Yahoo! regarding his session, “Enhancing Your Sites with the Yahoo! Interface Library”. Nate has been instrumental in creating and defining the practice of Web development and front- end engineering. Nate has championed modern standards-based Web development, a commitment to accessibility, code and pattern library creation, and open-source and blogging initiatives.
Check out the three minute interview on today?’s WOW Technology Minute website.
About the Yahoo! User Interface Library
The 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.
Check out the great resources on the Yahoo! User Interface Library website.
Also, check out Nate’s blog for more about Nate and his coverage of the web world.
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Transcript:
BILL CULLIFER: Greetings WOW members and Web Professionals everywhere. Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute, here at Web Design World Seattle. I have the pleasure to be interviewing Nate Koechley, from Yahoo!. In fact he was one of the first developers at Yahoo and he presented today on enhancing your site with the Yahoo! Interface Library. Great resources Nate. I?’m curious, for the subscribers of this podcast that can?’t participate in this event, can you give a summary of the session and maybe a walk-away with a link or two of where they can go to get more resources?
NATE KOECHLEY: Absolutely. So today we talked about…we started with an hour session with did an overview of “What is YUI?” The Yahoo! User Interface Library, the YUI Library, is a collection of utilities and controls written in JavaScript, CSS and HTML, for bringing interactivity, more power and interactivity, to your page. So we?’ve got a bunch of utilities like DOM manipulation, event handling, a lot of widgets like calendars and sliders, some CSS controls, and a growing collection of development tools for logging and unit-testing and stuff like this.
And so the second half of the session was really about how to enhance your site. One of the things we believe in architecturally is the notion of progressive enhancement and preserving accessibility and these other sort of concerns. So what we talked about was how to take a simple nested UL or OL structure, add YUI to it and immediately transform it into a rich, interactive DHTML-powered menu. How to take a text area and turn it into a rich-text editor, with just a couple of lines of code and work across all the A-grade browsers while preserving accessibility, internationalization, all these other things. So it?’s a big library. It?’s designed to be a-la-carte, you can pick and choose the pieces you want. It?’s very lightweight, it runs on all the Yahoo sites and thousands of other sites around the world. You can download it for free, it?’s under a BSD license at developer.yahoo.com/yui. Our whole team blogs at yuiblog.com. I?’m online at natekoechley.com and love to hear from you all.
BILL: Excellent. I appreciate that. And terrific resources, I know that firsthand. I thank you for all the work that you?’re doing to make all those resources available and for the interview today.
NATE: You?’re very welcome.
BILL: Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters, WOW Technology Minute, here with Nate Koechley, senior engineer, designer at Yahoo. Thank you so much Nate.
NATE: My pleasure, thank you.