Yahoo! UI Libraries Target Cross-browser Web Development Woes
The recently released Yahoo! UI libraries provide cross-browser DHTML and AJAX capabilities with a commercial-friendly BSD License. Unfortunately poor documentation, verbose syntax, and incomplete capabilities mar the experience.
by David Talbot
April 17, 2006
ver since the 4.0 browsers were released, cross-browser dynamic HTML libraries have proliferated as a simple matter of necessity. Any developer who wants to take advantage of the latest and greatest HTML/Javascript capabilities while maintaining cross-browser compatibility has probably developed something of a library of "hacks" to normalize the API between the warring and buggy browsers.
Overall, Yahoo provides a decent library for general cross-browser hacks, but unfortunately, the effort doesn't measure up to some of the other open source APIs available such as DynAPI. You can download the free Yahoo! UI (YUI) libraries and experiment with them yourself.
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ver since the 4.0 browsers were released, cross-browser dynamic HTML libraries have proliferated as a simple matter of necessity. Any developer who wants to take advantage of the latest and greatest HTML/Javascript capabilities while maintaining cross-browser compatibility has probably developed something of a library of "hacks" to normalize the API between the warring and buggy browsers.
