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Nate Koechley and Chris Heilmann's YUI presentation on Open Hack Day London 2007
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YUI – The Elephant in the room Christian Heilmann and Nate Koechley
UK Open Hack Day – London – 16th June 2007
[email protected] & [email protected] & creative commons by: 3.0
Following is a transcript of a chat I had a week before I joined Yahoo! a bit over a year ago.I had just finished writing my book on JavaScript.
[chris] Hey, I took the job at Yahoo in London![friend] Congrats, so much for you coding. I guess now it is all YUI for you. [chris] Nah, I honestly haven’t done much with it, but what I saw seems a bit bloated, I guess for most of the stuff I will code my own scripts. It is an OK library, but I am not convinced.
Now I am standing here, talking to you about the YUI and why it is a good thing.
What happened?
To: Mechanical TurkSubject: I can has beat-up for Chris?
To: Mechanical TurkSubject: I can has beat-up for Chris?
Pragmatism
Let me show you some of the things I spend money on…
This is our third Henry, … the first … lasted five years, the only reason it went was because it was used and abused but still worked. The second lasted about ten years went for the same reason as the first. Our last Henry was a bit of a disappointment it blew up after fifteen years but we have still purchased another one.
• Air cushioned• Resistant to
– Oil– Fat– Acid– Petrol– Alkali
• Steel Toes
Perfect to wear on the tube
• And this is what the YUI is.– Industrial-strength solutions for every
day problems– If it works for our web sites it should
work for you (or do you have more users?).
• Using the YUI also means another, very important step towards producing big products. – It takes the random element out of web
development.
• Normally we have the following scenario:
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•Own conventions
•Own testing methods
•Own environment
•Own coding style
•Own sense of who uses the product
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•Own conventions
•Own testing methods
•Own environment
•Own coding style
•Own sense of who uses the product
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•Own conventions
•Own testing methods
•Own environment
•Own coding style
•Own sense of who uses the product
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YUIMagic!
• YUI allows simple collaboration by enforcing a strict namespace.
• This is what I considered “bloated” until I realized the benefits of it.
• Namespacing of the different YUI components and clever namespacing of your objects ensures readability.
YAHOO.util.Dom.addClass
YAHOO.util.Event.getTarget
YAHOO.widget.Tooltip
YAHOO.util.DragDrop
YAHOO.util.Connect.isCallInProgress
All do what they say on the tin.
• By coming up with your own namespace and sticking to it, you ensure that your code will play well with others.
• You can cut your applications up into several components and develop them in parallel without interfering.
• File size of your scripts can be easily reduced by minifying and gzipping the scripts – long names pack nicely.
• The best thing:– Readable method names = half a good
comment– Agreed namespace = understanding
what your predecessors have done.
• The next best thing:– Submitted hacks should either use a
BBC or a Yahoo! API.
• The next best thing:– Submitted hacks should either use a
BBC or a Yahoo! API.
yahoo-min.js is 1kb, gives you the namespace and satisfies this rule :-)
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The INTERNETS
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The INTERNETS
DA DAH DUUUUUMMMM…
• The INTERNETS are scary, as they mean:– Different Browsers– Different Assistive Technology– Different Operating Systems– Different Configurations– Different Hardware
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The INTERNETS
20%
80%
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Secret YUI lair!
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Secret YUI lair!
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Battle And Tame The Internets!
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Secret YUI lair!
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HKRSeveral hundreds in world-wide locationsX
And now we need you to help us make this even better.
• Photo Credits
Numatic Henry http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicohogg/516490143/Docs http://www.flickr.com/photos/davetron5000/276535342/Elephant http://www.flickr.com/photos/euromagic/318774561/Vic20 Game http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifeontheedge/84913291/ Chris and the babes: http://www.flickr.com/photos/72169999@N00/348839862/ Nate http://www.flickr.com/photos/freshelectrons/400135496/ Spaghetti http://www.flickr.com/photos/hikikomori/155256307/Kitten http://www.flickr.com/photos/miller-lowe/346191736/Puppy http://www.cuteoverload.com
YUI Goodies
Industrial strength cross-browser JavaScript and CSS,
free for all
The YUI Team
“You bring the skills. We bring the ingredients.”
What’s YUI got?
[primitives]
[compounds]
[idioms]
Connection Manager (Ajax)Connection Manager (Ajax) Event UtilityEvent Utility
Dom CollectionDom Collection
Drag & DropDrag & DropAnimationAnimation
The Yahoo! User Interface Library
CSS Reset, Fonts, GridsCSS Reset, Fonts, Grids
Logger ControlLogger Control
Menu ControlMenu Control
SliderSliderTree ControlTree Control
Calendar ControlCalendar Control
AutoCompleteAutoComplete
DHTML WindowingDHTML Windowing
TabViewTabView
DOM Utility
•Positioning HTML Elements •Get/set Styles •Client/Viewport/Doc Size •Manage Class Names •Regions & points
Event Utility
• Attach to one or many• Auto-deferral if nodes aren’t yet
available; execute onAvailable• Auto scope correction (or assign) • Can send objects• Automatic listener cleanup • Custom Events (pub/sub)
Animation
• Beautiful API • Size/opacity/color/position/etc• Bezier math
Good for spicing up hacks:
• Slider• AutoComplete• DragDrop• Menu / Tabs / Trees• Container• Reset / Fonts / Grids
But wait, there’s more!
Design Patterns
Design Patterns
Storyboard Template for Drag & Drop
What happens when the mouse is pressed on the draggable object but dragging has not initiated?
What happens when the mouse is pressed on the draggable object but dragging has not initiated?
A full pantry
web services & data + YUI (interface code)+ Y design patterns--------------------= tasty hack goodness
Getting Started
Wide-openBSD License
Free hardcore hosting
http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.2.2/build/dom/dom-min.js
http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.2.2/build/event/event-min.js
http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.2.2/build/utilities/utilities.js
http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.2.2/build/reset-fonts-grids/reset-fonts-grids.css
Three Versions of each File
http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/10/16/pageweight-yui0114/
À la carte Dependencies
Download full dist with all docs & examples
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/download/
Landing Page Quick Start Guides
Complete API Documentation
Examples and Tutorials
The YUI Cheat Sheets
ydn-javascript list
YUI Logger and Firebug
• alert(“stop the insanity”);• YAHOO.log(“There IS a better
way”);
• Debug with Logger or Firebug directly.
Things we’re proud of:
• Good page citizens• We like javascript• We care about accessibility and
browser support
Graded Browser Support
Senior Architectural Leadership
•Douglas Crockford:–“Yoda of lambda programming
and JavaScript” according to Brendan Eich (Inventor of JavaScript)
•Rasmus Lerdorf –Father of PHP
Now Hack!
And come find me anytime.