Y! Press Discount from O'Reilly + 2009 Survey

Posted December 10, 2009

Thank you for sharing your attention with us in 2009. Celebrate the holidays with a 40% discount code from O'Reilly Media on 3 Yahoo! Press titles. The discount is good through 12/31/2009 on the following e-books and paperbacks:

• Designing Social Interfaces - Enter code DS4DS
• Hadoop: The Definitive Guide - Enter code HTD4G
• JavaScript: The Good Parts - Enter code JTGP4

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YUI 2.8 Preview Available for YAP Developers

Posted October 27, 2009

The Yahoo! Application Platform team just introduced support for a subset of the YUI 2.8.x libraries and utilities. If you're using the Yahoo! Application Platform to build apps for the Yahoo! homepage and My Yahoo!, you can now use limited Yahoo! User Interface library functionality in the Canvas view of your app. Learn more about YUI 2.8 works with YAP to simplify development.

Read the documentation | YUI Blog post | YDN Blog post

Build Apps for the New Yahoo! Homepage

Posted September 29, 2009

Perhaps you have terrific content. Maybe you’re building or promoting a brand. Or you build fun games. Say you just have a cool idea for how to engage millions of consumers.

Now you can build an app that runs on the most popular website in the world, the Yahoo! homepage, which has over 330 million unique visitors per month. To learn more:

• See how apps work on the Yahoo! homepage
• Read our documentation

YUI 3 — Official Debut of Next-Gen YUI

Posted October 2, 2009

YUI 3.0.0 is the first ground-up rewrite of Yahoo!'s popular JavaScript and CSS library since 2005, and this new version is fast, easy, and powerful. We're proud to announce that we've issued the first production-ready release of YUI 3, bringing the core of the library and its most important utility features out of beta.

Yahoo! projects like our new homepage are using YUI 3, and we couldn't be happier with the results. We think you'll like the new syntax, speed, and granularity that this library brings to your projects.