Blog: Archive for June, 2012

TreeView

That’s right. TreeView. It’s been a long time in the coming, but the initial drop of the TreeView widget is now available in a special out-of-cycle, totally breaking our own rules, 3.6.0 PR3.

TreeView’s user guide and API docs are available on our Staging site:

• User Guide
• API Docs

Every new component brings its own set of challenges, and TreeView has been no different. In addition to questions about how we would structure the class, we didn’t even have the available resources on the core team to bang it out. So Gonzalo Cordero stepped up and worked with Satyen, Allen, and others on the team to make it happen for 3.6.0.

There were some snags and some scheduling troubles that resulted in the code not making it into PR2, but we decided that it was important enough that we could bend the “no new features after PR2″ rule to finally ship it.

Gonzalo will be joining us to give a walk through of the API, architecture, and initial set of features. If you’ve been waiting for TreeView, please join us!

Recording

The recording is available in the YUILibrary YouTube channel.

Yahoo Axis, part 2 – Mojito

Last week, Caridy Patiño and Eugene Kashida from the Axis Frontend team gave us a high level overview of Axis, how and why it combines native and web technology for its mobile offering, and its use of YUI ScrollView and AutoComplete, but we ran out of time before we could get into how Mojito fit into the equation.

They agreed to join us again this week to fill in those details. So for those of you interested in seeing a reference implementation of Mojito, we’ll be spending the whole hour on it!

Recording

The recording is available in the YUILibrary YouTube channel.

Yahoo Axis, built on Mojito and YUI

A couple of weeks ago, Yahoo! released Axis, a mobile browser and desktop browser plugin combo to improve web browsing across all your devices. It’s been getting great reviews, it’s free, and it just so happens that it’s built with Mojito and YUI!

Representing the Axis Frontend team, Lead developer Caridy Patiño and coworker Eugene Kashida will join us to talk about how it was built, but there’s too much to cover in an hour, so we want your help deciding what to focus on. Here are some options:

1. we can focus on the YUI components used, which were extended, and which were custom built for Axis,
2. we can talk about the product in general and the architecture decisions that were made, such as hybrid vs native vs web (this probably won’t allow much time to dig into the code),
3. or we can focus on how Mojito was used, configured, and get more into the guts of that technology.

Let us know in the comments or tweet us @yuilibrary which you prefer or if you have other ideas!

Recording

The recording is available in the YUILibrary YouTube channel.