Yahoo! Goodies: UI Library and Design Patterns
Original post provide by PHP Everywhere - By John LimYahoo has recently released their Design Pattern Libary. As they mention on their site:
Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We are very happy to be sharing our library with the design and development community. This is our first drop of what we hope to be a monthly release cycle for the publication of patterns. In many cases we have bundled the patterns with pointers to related code from the Yahoo! User Interface Library.
I had a look at some of the patterns. Navigation, breadcrumbs, pagination, auocompletion… Not quite what i expected: these are user interface guidelines, not coding patterns that explain ways of implementing these guidelines. Useful, but don’t be misled.
The User Interface Library includes libraries for drag and drop, animation and othehr interesting stuff under a BSD license. Widgets provided include Calendar, Slider and Tree View. The widgets don’t seem particularly interesting (there are good alternatives out there), but the attractive thing about these libraries are that they have probably been thoroughly tested on more browsers than I could possibly test on.
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