Yahoo Releases Yahoo UI Library

I am extremely excited about this announcement! Yahoo has released to the world an amazing set of javascript libraries to enable you to build AJAX / Web 2.0 apps. These arent just some random collection of scripts. They are hard-core cross browser functions that are being used on real Yahoo projects. From the site:


The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation of rich client-side features by enhancing and normalizing the developer's interface to important elements of the browser infrastructure (such as events, in-page HTTP requests and the DOM). The Yahoo UI Library Controls produce visual, interactive user interface elements on the page with just a few lines of code and an included CSS file. All the components in the Yahoo! User Interface Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.


In addition to this, Yahoo's also released a set of Design Patterns . It's like someone giving you a huge set of Legos and a big pile of Lego instructions. All you have to do is put the pieces together and build something cool! I've been using these libraries for over a year now, so if you need any help or have any questions about the libraries, feel free to email me.

Also there is a blog now from the folks at Yahoo creating these libraries - the yuiblog.