YUI Theater — Nate Koechley: “The YUI CSS Foundation”
October 29, 2007 at 6:22 am by Eric Miraglia | In Development | 3 CommentsNate Koechley is the author of the YUI Library’s CSS components — Reset, Fonts, Grids, and Base. Nate has been at Yahoo since 2001 where he was among the first pure web developers. During the past six years, he’s helped guide the formation of a vibrant frontend discipline at Yahoo built around a commitment to professionalism, standards, and performance. In 2005, Nate was among the first engineers to join the YUI team and he was instrumental in making YUI available as a free open-source project in 2006. In addition to engineering our CSS components, Nate has been one of our most visible contributors at conferences, where he’s spokeon on a wide range of frontend engineering topics.
In this 40-minute presentation, Nate takes you on a detailed tour of the YUI CSS foundation, its philosophy, and its usage.
This video is available in Flash format on Yahoo! Video and as an MPEG-4, iPod/iPhone-compatible download (change the extension from .m4v to .mp4 if your video software doesn’t recognize the extension). (Slides available for download here.)
In Case You Missed…
Some other recent videos from the YUI Theater series:
- PPK: "Fronteers — Guild of Front-End Developers" (Yahoo! Video | .mp4 download)
- Bill Scott: "Designing the Rich Web Experience" (Yahoo! Video | .mp4 download)
- Steve Souders: “High Performance Web Sites: 14 Rules for Faster Pages” (Yahoo! Video | .m4v download)
- Joseph Smarr: "High-Performance JavaScript: Why Everything You’ve Been Taught is Wrong" (Yahoo! Video | .m4v download)
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