Mixer prototype v.0.1

This post announces an update to Graded Browser Support. The GBS page on the YUI site always has the most current information. This post includes a list of primary changes, the updated chart of browsers that receive A-grade support, the GBS forecast, and notes specific to the YUI Library.
Primary Changes
These changes are included in this [...]

As I had to upgrade my personal blog to the newest WordPress version (and my old theme had been hacked to death), I chose to start from scratch with a WordPress theme.
[You can download the new theme here.]
As I am a lazy person and I think blogging is first and foremost about content and availability, [...]

You know the scenario. A bug is filed for a JavaScript issue
in production. You update your development server to the same files (allegedly)
that are in production but you can’t reproduce the issue. Debugging your
JavaScript code is horrifically difficult, if not impossible, because you’re
following best practices and crunching the file using the YUI Compressor.
You start [...]

The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) has an ample assortment of
components. Nevertheless, there will be always some functionality you want that a library like YUI hasn’t anticipated or hasn’t built yet.
Sometimes you just want a subset of the many options a component might provide; in other cases, you may have a default configuration [...]

Thanks to Sebastian Snopek from the International Liaison Group (WaSP ILG), this post is also available in Polish: Wtórny hAccessibility?.
Fanning the fires of the ABBR pattern debate, the developers at BBC Radio Labs announced today that they’ll be removing the hCalendar microformat from their programmes listing pages, pending further accessibility testing or the establishment [...]

It’s a toasty 105 degrees this evening in California — what better way to cool off (and celebrate the solstice) than to dive into the wild with some of the many YUI items that have caught our eye since the last post?
Nicora.net’s YUI PhotoViewer: Can you ever have too many lightbox options? Check out nicora.net’s [...]

It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that accessibility is only about the blind people with physical disabilities, and forget about those with cognitive difficulties, or those who are new to the Web. Many pages are very busy and confusing and hence off-putting.
Flame-haired DOMscripting lovegod Christian Heillman, has been experimenting with easy-to-use [...]

Modifying a DOM element’s style during user interaction is one of the
pillars of creating DHTML interfaces that transition from state to state in a
smooth, and (hopefully) intuitive way. Every HTMLElement in the DOM
contains style, a collection of properties corresponding to the
CSS properties understood by the browser. For JavaScript and CSS enabled browsers, the [...]

Recently, we released a family of related Reputation patterns to the Yahoo Design Pattern Library, the first of several collections of social-design related patterns that we’re working on. These patterns are somewhat different from the typical UI or rich-interaction type of pattern. They don’t tell you how to lay out a page or where to [...]

Juan I. Leon at Notoptimal Dev went looking for the perfect Accordion Menu recently, but the search was not a success. The criteria:
be lightweight
use unobtrusive Javascript techniques (ie not have scattered Javascript all over the markup)
use simple CSS to make it look nice
needed to support both single and multiple sections opened at [...]

Adobe's JavaScript frameworks is maturing, but there's still room for improvement.

On the heels of Wednesday’s YUI 2.5.2 release, we wanted to take minute to share some of the YUI links and projects that have caught our eye in the past few weeks.
Matt Snider (F2E lead at Mint) continues his long-term process of blogging about the work he’s doing building on top of YUI with "Dom.activate [...]

Jason Lee announced the Release Candidate of Mojarra Scales, a new JSF component library that provides support for YUI Charts, Menus, Calendars, Rich Text Editors, Sliders, TabViews and TreeViews (demos of these components and others are available). From the announcement:
I am pleased to announce the first release candidate of Mojarra Scales 1.0, a new [...]