I’m psyched to announce today the availability of Yahoo!’s Mojito in open source, a ground-breaking JavaScript framework developed by Yahoo! for Web developers. Mojito is one of the Yahoo! Cocktails, our JavaScript-centric presentation platform for connected devices. Notice how I said Mojito is targeted at Web developers. Why? Because we strongly believe in an open, [...]
Developers, time to geek out. Yahoo! has been working behind the scenes for the past several months on an exciting new technology that we think will deeply impact the web developer community. We call it “Cocktails” and it’s the technology powering Livestand, which we launched today at Product Runway. “Cocktails” is a mix of HTML5, [...]
Last month I wrote about a nifty trick we implemented in Yahoo! Mail to copy an email address using the keyboard shortcut CTRL+C (CMD+C on OSX ) on a selected contact bubble or “Lozenge”. The keyboard shortcut, while useful, was not something that was immediately obvious to users. For the functionality to be widely applicable, [...]
JUTE is throwing its hat into the Javascript ‘do-it-all’ testing environments showcase showdown.
The email contact bubble or “lozenge” as we call it, is a self contained entity in Yahoo! Mail compose page that can be copied, edited, deleted and even dragged around. In this post, we will talk about a nifty trick that might be useful while working with web applications.
Today we’re announcing the first beta version of Yahoo! WebPlayer. At its core, Yahoo! WebPlayer is a powerful Web based media player written in HTML and JavaScript. It supports a variety of video and audio media formats and services, for example Yahoo! Video, YouTube, MP3 or WMA. Beyond being a flexible and universal media player, [...]
Analyze and optimize your mobile website performance – and please send your feedback.
How to be a player at JSConf – and my presentation on the making of a JavaScript media player.
Learn how the Yahoo! Mail front-end developers use the cache warmer to improve performance and deliver a more responsive user experience.
The team completely reworked presentation standards, content ingestion and storage, and workflow processes to bring us the new Yahoo! News Beta.
In light of YUIConf, I’m excited to announce a preview release of our upcoming Yahoo! Press book, Up and Running with Node.js.
More details on methodology and their implications to better understand our results and how to use them.
We asked that as we were doing analytics on the Yahoo! homepage, and measured how many requests were from browsers with JavaScript disabled.
Jsconf.eu 2010 was one of the best conferences I’ve been to this year — some of the smartest JavaScript coders on the planet, in the very trendy city of Berlin.
NodeJS is a server-side JavaScript runtime implemented using Google’s highly performant V8 engine. Yahoo! Mail engineer Peter Griess explores several ways to use multiple cores in NodeJS.
