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- veritech, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Sweet, now i just have to resist using these for the sheer hell of it...
- ramses0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Standard solution is:
var imported = YAHOO.blah.blah.blah.SomeLibrary;
imported.doSomething();
imported.doOtherSomething();
...but yes, it is kindof wordy in places. You should lurk on their ydn-javascript list ... pretty interesting stuff they talk about.
--Robert - CaughtThinking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Holy crap. These effects are gorgeous. These feel 10X faster than comparable effects frameworks. See ya later scriptcrapulous.
- akkuma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm not sure what dojo docs you are looking at but these: http://manual.dojotoolkit.org/index.html are so incomplete that I decided to not even bother. 6 out of 11 general libraries do not have any documentation and nearly every widget has no documentation.
- elvirs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i lliked this, cool animations...
- knight17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ads on a site dont distract me.Do you know why because I use Admuncher it gives me page the way the developer designed it.so cool.Ad muncher is paid software if you need a freeware app go for proxomitron it is equally good.So i can use Yahoo! without any problems
- b7j0c, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2as a preemptive measure for all the dhtml crowd - you really don't need to animate every state change on the page. no, please, really...as in "don't".
- akkuma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I looked into various libraries for a project at work specifically for drag and drop. I wound up NOT using any of them due to making a somewhat more complex system. The biggest problem with Yahoo is how wordy their library's syntax is compared to others. Now on lots of projects I am sure namespace is not going to be an issue unless you like very specific aspects of certain libraries, drag and drop using scriptaculous, widgets from dojo, moofx for the effects, etc.
Now a ton of people hate Prototype, but I wound up using it for some of its features. If I am really worried about it not being separate packages, thus a lot larger than specific libraries, I'll manually make it into separate libraries.
In a lot of cases libraries are good, but for Javascript a lot of it seems unnecessary and more like you have to force yourself to use their syntax for something very marginally better. - bileckme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great to see what one can achieve with the Yahoo! UI - I have had much such success with the scriptaculous and this articles seems to prove to me the many possibilities available for deploying rich web applications...
Nice article!! - mattclark1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've actually been spending some time lately trying to find a decent javascript framework like this. I tried the YUI for a while, but I didn't like the feel of it. There were numerous includes (although most are quite small to be fair) to do most things and the code felt too yahoo centered. These in of themselves are hardly major issues, at least they weren't for me, but when I found the open source dojo toolkit ( www.dojotoolkit.org ) I knew I had found what I was looking for. Anyway, they both seem to be great frameworks, but for me at least Dojo felt a lot more extensible and better planned for whatever use may come. Not to mention the docs are great. And I read somewhere in them that you can even run unit tests on your javascript code in dojo, although I haven't had a chance to try that out yet.
- pompom246, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@onthejdar
You know Gmail has default avatars too... they're just not quite as prominently displayed as Yahoo! Mail's. - swiftsam, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4too many big gross moving graphic ads. they even have ads on the left column of the mail interface where the other menu options are. i could use adblock to strip it down to something reasonable i guess, but still
- b_timmins, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6Have you tried their new mail interface? Much better than gmail. Feels like a desktop app, highlight mails with ctrl/shift, drag/drop to folders etc etc very powerful...
- unxpernced, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6You're a fool. You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. This isn't about software at all...
- Lazerbeak, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0jeuz what little silly yahoo fanboys we have here negative digs for jokes about yahoo
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3Yahoo is Google spelled backwards.
- CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1Good christ! I couldn't even make it past the first paragraph it was so horrible!
- onTheJDAR, on 10/12/2007, -16/+1I dropped Yahoo Mail when they intro diced that avatar thing. I did not want some strange silhouette to greet me when I logged in, nor did I want to spend an hour customizing one from their library.
I actually sent their help line an email, letting them know I was switching to Gmail unless they made the avatar removable. So now I use Gmail. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -19/+3Use Yahoo Search to find out :)
- Killerdeath, on 10/12/2007, -20/+2From Wikipedia:
"Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American computer services company with a mission to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses". It operates an Internet portal, the Yahoo! Directory and a host of other services including the popular Yahoo! Mail. It was founded by Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang in January of 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California."
btw, sarcasm? whats that ? :D - Lazerbeak, on 10/12/2007, -27/+3yahoo? whats that ? :D
- lefthandedlinux, on 10/12/2007, -27/+3p!ss on Yahoo, they cant even code HTML, CSS & javascript worth a damn why would i trust any software from them?
besides their ymessenger is a bloated piece of crap and advertising...
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