YUI Weekly for November 9th, 2012

By Derek GathrightNovember 9th, 2012

Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community. If you have any interesting demos or links you’d like to share, leave a comment below or email contributions to weekly at yuilibrary.com.

• 6 days until YUIConf 2012! Check out our amazing lineup of speakers and register today!

• This week saw the release of YUI 3.8.0pr1, the first preview release of the YUI’s 3.8 branch. Updates and additions to 3.8 include; Y.Template, Y.Color, Y.AttributeObservable, Y.BaseObservable, ScrollView enhancements, and more! You can read all about it in the release announcement.

• Y.Color has 3 new demos that are now available to begin experimenting with, including RGB Slider, HSL Color Picker, and HSL Harmony. Fun!

• Yeti just landed support for using multiple instances of the same browser to speed up browser testing. The feature is available for those installing in-development snapshots of Yeti. A release is coming soon, so watch the Yeti blog for updates coming before next week’s YUIConf.

• Version bumps this week for the following YUI devtools: yuidoc and yuitest-coverage. Upgrade with npm install -g yuidocjs yuitest-coverage. YUIDoc now has a doc linting feature, yuidoc --lint.

• New in the Gallery this week is busy, an easy way to create “busy” overlays (example). Updated Gallery modules include slidecheckbox, twitter-widget, textarea-expander, itsadialogbox, and zui-rascroll.

• Reads of the week:

  • Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript
  • ECMAScript 6 collections, Part 3: WeakMaps
  • Tracking Down Memory Leaks in Node.js

• Tweets of the week: