YUI Weekly for February 22nd, 2013

By Derek GathrightFebruary 22nd, 2013

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.

• This week saw the release of YUI 3.9.0pr3, our last scheduled preview release before next week’s 3.9.0 GA release. This release includes the addition of Y.Tree, Normalize.css, A+ Compatible Promises, Graphics Chaining, and more! See this blog post for a recap of everything that has changed since 3.9.0pr2.

• Added to the YUI Theater this week was YUI Open RoundTable 02/21/2013, where we discussed performance benchmarking with yui-bench, YUI CSS, YUI Web Font, and as well as the typical house-cleaning with bugs and pull requests.

• yui-contrib discussions:

  • Can/should something be done about URL lengths?
  • Custom Icon font for YUI
  • Contributing.md – take a look?
  • Benchmarking

• Version bump for yuidoc. Upgrade with npm install -g yuidocjs.

• New and updated Gallery modules include busy, itsadialogbox, slidecheckbox, textarea-expander, twitter-widget, and zui-rascroll.

• Reads of the Week (thanks to JavaScript Weekly)

  • asm.js: A Low Level, Highly Optimizable Subset of JavaScript for Compilers
  • Two ways to set a conditional breakpoint in JavaScript
  • Functions Explained
  • … and more