Matt Snider, "Yahoo User Interface 2.X
Cookbook"
P.ckt P.blishing | 2011 | ISBN: 1849511624 | 436 pages | PDF | 5.7 MB
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. Although you can create
stylish Internet applications by modifying its default components, even
advanced users find it challenging to create impressive feature-rich Internet
applications using YUI.
This book will help you learn how to use YUI 2.x to build richer, more
interactive web applications that impress clients and wow your friends. It has
recipes explaining over twenty-five YUI components, showing how to use them,
and how to configure them to meet your needs. Each covered component will have
extractable code samples that showcase the common ways that the component is
used.
The book starts by explaining the core features of YUI 2.x, the utilities that
the rest of the library depends on and that will make your life easier. It then
explains how to build UI components and make AJAX requests using the YUI
framework. Each recipe will cover the most common ways to use a component, how
to configure it, and then explain any other features that may be available. We
wrap things up by looking at some of the recent beta components and explain how
to use them, and how they may be useful on your web application.
For each of the recipes, there is an introductory example, then more advanced
examples, followed by an explanation of how the component works and what YUI is
doing. For more experienced developers, most recipes also include additional
discussion of the solution, explaining to further customize and enhance the
component.
This practical book, packed with easy-to-follow recipes, will help you create
modern rich internet applications using the most powerful components of Yahoo!
User Interface Library (YUI)
What you will learn from this book
Understand how YUI 2.x works and what
features are available
Understand how YUI components interact with the DOM, and why
Effortlessly search the DOM and listen for end-user events
Simplify retrieving server-side data using AJAX and DataSource
Learn how to load your scripts and CSS on demand
Create sophisticated HTML-based panels, tooltips, and dialogs
Make interactive inputs with AutoComplete
Harness the power of drag and drop for your UI
Build sortable, dynamic tables using DataTable
Design richer user interfaces using YUI buttons and menus
Show data hierarchies using the TreeView
Explore some of the more recent beta components
Take control of your UI as you master YUI 2.x
Approach
This book contains recipes that showcase the common components of YUI,
providing suggested examples of use, and a detailed explanation. Except for the
first three chapters, which cover the 3 components of YUI that form the
foundation for all other components, this book is not meant to be read
cover-to-cover. Each recipe is presented as a separate, standalone entity and
reading of other prior recipes is not required. Each chapter tackles a
particular component or set of related components, introducing the component
and explaining how to use it.
Who this book is written for
If you are a web application developer and have some prior experience with or
interest in using YUI 2.x to improve the UI of their web applications, then
this book is for you. It assumes the reader has prior knowledge of javascript,
HTML, CSS, and basic understanding of how a website works. This book provides
an easy-to-use guide for implementing YUI 2.x components, and does not require
an expertise in either javascript or YUI.
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