Introduction to YUI 3

Presenter: Stoyan Stefanov

Description: 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.

YUI includes a CSS framework for building layouts quickly and a number widgets that allow developers to create pages containing rich text editing capabilities, drag and drop containers and lightboxes, calendars and many more. YUI 3.0. is the new code generation of the powerful library that is:

• lighter (less K-weight on the wire and on the page for most uses)
• faster (fewer http requests, less code to write and compile, more efficient code)
• more consistent (common naming, event signatures, and widget APIs throughout the library) * more powerful (do more with less implementation code)
• more securable (safer and easier to expose to multiple developers working in the same environment;