YUI 2.8: Learning the Library
Develop your next-generation web applications with the YUI JavaScript development library
Published on 13. January 2025
404 pages
978-1-84951-071-4 (ISBN)
Description
Develop your next-generation web applications with the YUI JavaScript development library
Key Features
Improve your coding and productivity with the YUI Library
Gain a thorough understanding of the YUI tools
Learn from detailed examples for common tasks
Book DescriptionThe 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.What you will learn
Explore the YUI Library s utilities, controls, core files, and CSS tools
Install the library and get up and running with it
Handle DOM manipulation and scripting
Get inside Event Handling with YUI
Create consistent web pages using YUI CSS tools
Use rich user interface controls
Communicate with external sources of data
Debug, maintain, and update applications
Examples included in the book:
Calendar interface
Autocomplete
Creating panels
Dialogs
Custom tooltips
Forms
Split button
TreeView Control
Browser History Manager with Calendar
Simple and custom animations
Creating tabs and adding content dynamically
Dragging and dropping
Implementing sliders
DataTable Control
Rich Text Editor
Creating Menus
Creating custom controls with Element
Connecting with web services and other sources
Who this book is forThis book is for web developers comfortable with JavaScript and CSS, who want to use the YUI library to easily put together rich, responsive web interfaces. No knowledge of the YUI library is presumed.
Key Features
Improve your coding and productivity with the YUI Library
Gain a thorough understanding of the YUI tools
Learn from detailed examples for common tasks
Book DescriptionThe 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.What you will learn
Explore the YUI Library s utilities, controls, core files, and CSS tools
Install the library and get up and running with it
Handle DOM manipulation and scripting
Get inside Event Handling with YUI
Create consistent web pages using YUI CSS tools
Use rich user interface controls
Communicate with external sources of data
Debug, maintain, and update applications
Examples included in the book:
Calendar interface
Autocomplete
Creating panels
Dialogs
Custom tooltips
Forms
Split button
TreeView Control
Browser History Manager with Calendar
Simple and custom animations
Creating tabs and adding content dynamically
Dragging and dropping
Implementing sliders
DataTable Control
Rich Text Editor
Creating Menus
Creating custom controls with Element
Connecting with web services and other sources
Who this book is forThis book is for web developers comfortable with JavaScript and CSS, who want to use the YUI library to easily put together rich, responsive web interfaces. No knowledge of the YUI library is presumed.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Edition type
Digital original
File size
3,80 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84951-071-4 (9781849510714)
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07/2010
Packt Publishing
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Persons
Daniel Barreiro, screen-name Satyam, has been a very active member in the YUI forums, providing support, writing articles in the YUI Blog, and maintaining examples and further articles in his own site. A YUI Contributor, he is one of the few external developers to have a component included in the YUI 2 library. Dan Wellman is an author and frontend engineer living on the South Coast of the UK and working in London. By day he works for Skype and has a blast writing application-grade JavaScript. By night he writes books and tutorials focused mainly on frontend web development. He is also a staff writer for the Tuts+ arm of the Envato network, and occasionally writes for .Net magazine. He's the proud father of four amazing children, and the grateful husband of a wonderful wife.
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