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YUI 2.8: Learning the Library

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YUI 2.8: Learning the Library

Overview of this book

The YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls written in JavaScript for building Rich Internet Applications, across all major browsers and independently of any server technology. There's a lot of functionality baked into YUI, but getting to and understanding that functionality is not for the faint of heart. This book gives you a clear picture of YUI through a step-by-step approach, packed with lots of examples.YUI 2.8: Learning the Library covers all released (non-beta) components of the YUI 2.8 Library in detail with plenty of working examples, looking at the classes that make up each component and the properties and methods that can be used. It includes a series of practical examples to reinforce how each component should/can be used, showing its use to create complex, fully featured, cross-browser, Web 2.0 user interfaces. It has been updated from its first edition with the addition of several chapters covering several new controls and enriched with lots of experience of using them.You will learn to create a number of powerful JavaScript controls that can be used straightaway in your own applications. Besides giving you a deep understanding 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. The final chapter describes many of the tools available to assist you the developer in debugging, maintaining, and ensuring the best quality in your code. In this new edition, all the examples have been updated to use the most recent coding practices and style and new ones added to cover newer components. Since the basic documentation for the library is available online, the focus is on providing insight and experience.The authors take the reader from beginner to advanced-level YUI usage and understanding.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
YUI 2.8 Learning the Library
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Tools of the trade


There are some similarities between the CSS Tools and the other components of the library and there are of course some differences. Like each of the other components, there is also a full version of each file with comments and whitespace preserved for readability, and a minified production version.

If you wish, you can also have Yahoo! serve the CSS files used by the tools to you across the Internet by linking to the files held on their servers, just as you can with the other library components.

Several different configurations of the CSS Tools have also been put together, which combine some of the different tools into single files, making them easier and more efficient to use together. reset.css and fonts.css have been aggregated into one file for your convenience, which is probably because the YUI team recommend the use of these two tools in all YUI implementations. A reset-fonts-grids.css file has also been created due to the high likelihood that the huge range of page...