YUI version 0.12.0: TabView Control, Improved API Documentation, and More

November 13, 2006 at 6:35 pm by Eric Miraglia | In Development | 23 Comments

Today we released version 0.12 of the YUI Library. Here are the highlights:

The TabView Control: Written by YUI Animation and Dom author Matt Sweeney, this dynamic tab solution is the newest YUI addition and features robust support both for progressive enhancement and for high-gloss richness. Check out Matt’s roster of TabView examples for an idea of what the new control can do; view source on the examples to see how they’re implemented.
Improved Documentation: YUI developer Adam Moore (Event, Drag & Drop, Slider, TreeView) has created a new tool for generating API documentation, allowing us to generate unified, crosslinked API docs with an integral AutoComplete-powered search control. The new API documents provide developers with a clearer picture of class structures and provide separate categorization for properties and configuration options. You may never go back to Cheat Sheets again…
…But in Case You Still Like Cheat Sheets: Cheat Sheets are updated for version 0.12 and include new sheets for TabView and for Nate Koechley’s CSS Reset, Fonts and Grids foundation. You can download all the YUI Cheat Sheets from the YUI Library website.
Speaking of CSS Grids: Nate has rev’d the Grids package with baked-in support for 750px, 950px, and full-viewport ("liquid") layouts. Grids 0.12 triples the number of supported layouts and still weights in under 3KB before gzipping. We’ve built the YUI website on the Reset/Fonts/Grids foundation now and we’re making use use of the new full-viewport support.
Improvements Throughout the Library: There are enhancements to be found throughout the library, from Event’s new onContentReady method to a significantly improved Calendar Control with a simplified interface for creating multi-month calendar displays (if you’re upgrading from a previous version of Calendar, check out the step-by-step upgrade guide). For a full list of changes, see the release notes documentation that accompanies the distribution.

We’ll follow up with more information on some of these topics later in the week. For now, please make your way to SourceForge to download the latest YUI distribution; see the release notes in the distribution for a full manifest of changes throughout the library. As always, the YUI site on the Yahoo! Developer Network has all the latest documentation.

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wooo hooo.. I can’t wait to take a look at the new goodies. Thanks for the hard work!

Comment by Ben Long — November 13, 2006 #
[...] The YUI team has released a new version today, 0.12.0. [...]

Pingback by Davs Rants and Random Thoughts » YUI Version 0.12.0 Released today — November 13, 2006 #
Huge thanks you guys – awesome work, thanks so much for sharing with the community, this stuff is great. That new documentation about brought a tear to my eye.

Comment by Carson — November 13, 2006 #
[...] Yahoo’s latest version of their YUI library is now available. They are now up to 0.12, and the YUI blog has some more details on the release. The biggest new ‘goodie’ looks to be tab controls. I’ll be talking about this release more on an upcoming podcast. [...]

Pingback by Michael Kimsal’s weblog » New Yahoo UI library — November 14, 2006 #
Yahoo! UI Library (YUI)がバージョンアップ！…

Yahoo! UI Library (YUI)が新しくなっていました。 YUI version 0.12.0: TabView Control, Improved API Documentation, and More Yahoo! User Interface Blog 新機能追加された機能はTabViewです。以下のようなタブを手軽に作れます。タブを上段に表示下段に左右にま…

Trackback by 気負わない日記 — November 16, 2006 #
[...] I hope you already saw the good news over on the YUI Blog: We just released a new version of the YUI Library, bringing it to v0.12. We’ve been releasing updates about monthly, but this is a substantial one with several changes, and moves us beyond the v0.11 branch after several rounds of dot releases at that level. [...]

Pingback by » Notes on the New YUI Library Update Nate Koechley’s Blog — November 16, 2006 #
[...] Ok, no horrible pun for the title this time, but I did want to mention that 2.1 of the YUI libraries are out and there’s some nifty new stuff. [...]

Pingback by Yahoo! Cool thing of the Day » Blog Archive » Version 2.1 of YUI Available — November 16, 2006 #
Haven’t you all seen Jack Slocum’s YUI Extensions? Yahoo! has a team of developers working on YUI, and all you guys can create is a Tabs control? Go to http://www.jackslocum.com (soon to be http://www.yui-ext.com) and see what one man can do in a couple months time. It puts Yahoo! to some serious shame.

Comment by Jarred Nicholls — November 17, 2006 #
[...] Version 0.12 of the YUI Library has been released: [...]

Pingback by Ajaxian » Yahoo! UI: 0.12 Release — November 17, 2006 #
looks cool. Examples are pretty neat.

Comment by chakpak — November 17, 2006 #
[...] Yahoo! hat eine neue Version seiner User Interface Library für JavaScript veröffentlicht. In einem Beitrag auf dem YUI Blog schreibt Eric Miraglia über die enthaltenen Neuerungen: [...]

Pingback by web.develop — November 17, 2006 #
New docs look great. Any change of you guys releasing the tool used to create them? Is it a modified JSdoc?

Comment by Justin Kramer — November 17, 2006 #
they are very aware of jack slocum, but he’s more a experimental than a long term api can afford to be. i applaud yahoos careful decision making, it gives me and my company confidence in their product.

Comment by Ivan — November 18, 2006 #
[...] Version 0.12 of the YUI Library has been released: [...]

Pingback by Yahoo! UI: 0.12 Release — November 19, 2006 #
Do you think the tool Adam created to generate the new documentation will be released?

Comment by Scott — November 20, 2006 #
【Yahoo! UI】YUI version 0.12.0リリース…

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ YUI version 0.12.0: TabView Control, Improved API Documentation, and More November 13, 2006 at 6:35 pm by Eric Miraglia | http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/11/13/yui-0120-released/…...

Trackback by JavaScript++かも日記 — November 21, 2006 #
Thx for ur nice job~

Comment by poppy — December 4, 2006 #
The readme for this release notes a calendar upgrade guide can be found at http://ws2.inf.scd.yahoo.com/yui/calendar/upgrade.html.http://ws2.inf.scd.yahoo.com/yui/calendar/upgrade.html.

Visiting this page however returns a 403 Forbidden response. Could this please be fixed up?

Comment by Simon — December 5, 2006 #
@Simon: Thanks for the note, and sorry for the mistake. The correct URL is http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/calendar/upgrade.html — we’ll correct the readme with the next release. Regards, Eric

Comment by Eric Miraglia — December 5, 2006 #
Is it me or does tabview not work in safari 2.0/osx 10.4?

Comment by Andrew — December 17, 2006 #
@Andrew: Safari 2.0.x is an A-Grade browser, so it’s one that we test against. And all the TabView examples we have do work for me in the latest Safari 2. If you’re having any issues at all, please do report them SourceForge…we’ll look into it immediately. -Regards, Eric

Comment by Eric Miraglia — December 17, 2006 #
Thanks Eric — I posted it to the bug tracker at sourceforge, with one screenshot. The machine in question is a qa machine here at work, and was one that didn’t have the latest system update, which includes a safari update. So its safari 2.0.1, and os 10.4.2 more specifically. Let me know if you want me to try anything out on that machine.

Comment by Andrew — December 19, 2006 #
eagerly waiting a public release of the YUI API documentation framework :)

Others to note are:

jsdoc.sf.net
jsdoctoolkit.org
scriptdoc.org

Comment by Anthony Ettinger — May 15, 2007 #

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