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Yahoo! releases UI and Design Patterns

Fred Oliveira on February 14, 2006

Yahoo! Yahoo! keeps showing the world how much they get web 2.0. This time, they’ve done the unexpected and opened the sources to the UI library (that includes visual effects, connection handlers - think ajax -, dom handlers, and drag-and-drop controls) under a BSD license. Also, they’re now sharing their design patterns under a Creative Commons license.

Download Yahoo! UI library
Download Yahoo! Design Patterns

This is clearly celebration time for the online development community and open source movements. Big players embracing the need for open standards - thus stimulating innovation instead of re-invention - are definitely something we need more of. Excellent! [via O'Reilly Radar]


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Marc Abramowitz » Yahoo! UI and Design Patterns Released

[...] Jeremy points out a good quote from WeBreakStuff. Yahoo! keeps showing the world how much they get web 2.0. This time, they’ve done the unexpected and opened the sources to the UI library (that includes visual effects, connection handlers - think ajax -, dom handlers, and drag-and-drop controls) under a BSD license. Also, they’re now sharing their design patterns under a Creative Commons license. [...]

Sean McBride

Wow, that’s totally awesome! I’ll have to dig through their codebase and see how they’ve solved particular problems. I’m particularly interested to see if their AJAX code can get responseXML for static HTML pages in IE. It’s been a big problem of mine lately.

You’re right, Yahoo just does seem to “get it” lately. Everything I hear about them makes me like what they’re doing more and more.

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Ajaxian » Yahoo releases their UI libraries and opens design patterns resource

[...] Seen at Jeremy’s blog and WeBreakStuff: Yahoo has released their design pattern library under a Creative Commons license and a user interface library with a set of JavaScript widgets and utils for rich web app development under a BSD license. This coincides with the opening of a new Yahoo User Interface blog, which already has some great content with pointers to some of the other popular libraries and usability pattern sites (including Michael’s Ajax Patterns). The widget set contains many things being used at live Yahoo sites like their maps beta and Yahoo local, so this should be some high quality code. [...]

Read/WriteWeb

Read/WriteWeb Filter…

- The Trendiest Web2.0 Page on the Net! (it’s funny cause it’s true… apologies to Fred, who for all I know may’ve invented the ‘big red jagged circle’ effect) - ‘Future of Web Apps’ slides… (beautifully designed presentation from Tom……

Yahoo! User Interface Library » Nate Koechley’s Blog

[...] It lives! I’ve been pushing and planning for this since last summer, and I couldn’t be more excited. Nor could I be happier with the response we’ve received so far from all of you. Thanks for the encouragement and all the kind words. [...]

nanoblog » Yahoo libera código para interfaces de usuario (JavaScript) y patrones de diseño

[...] La gente de Yahoo liberó patrones de diseño para resolver problemas comunes y scripts para efectos, ajax y manejo de DOM que usan para sus productos. [...]

Yud Media | Web Design and Marketing » Yahoo! releases its Design Pattern, UI library

[...] Read more: Jeremy Zawodny: Yahoo! UI and Design Patterns Released WeBreakStuff: Yahoo! releases UI and Design Patterns [...]

squeakytoy » Blog Archive » My foray into the world of open source development

[...] It still feels a little strange to me to be able to blog so openly about what I’ve been working on for the few months I’ve been at Yahoo! and reading the incredibly positive feedback that we’ve received from various bloggers is a really exciting and validating experience. [...]

Anders Toxboe

You might also want to check out this pretty cool resource for ui-patterns: http://ui-patterns.com

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