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YUI 2.4.0 Released: CSS Selectors, Charts, Profiler, Script/CSS Get, and JSON Support
Tons of new stuff in the latest release of YUI. I’m particularly stoked about CSS selectors. Awesome. Can’t wait to play with it.
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The final word on frameworks, from someone way smarter than me
If you’ve been paying attention, you know that a simple discussion about CSS frameworks has turned into quite a bit of a mess. This is in large part due to inadequacies in the way I presented my thoughts, and also in some part due to what can only be called hypersensitivity, snobbery, elitism, and flat-out ignorance on the part of a lot of CSS authors. Thankfully, someone much more level-headed than me and, quite frankly, a lot smarter than all of us, is here to save us all. He’s James Bennett, a Python and JavaScript programmer extraordinaire who also happens to be a solid CSS author. James wrote a freakin’ great piece called Let’s talk about frameworks (again), in which he explains a lot of things that the vast majority of web designer simply don’t understand.
This concept of “frameworks” is pretty new to us designers and CSS authors. However, it’s not new to engineers. These guys have been dealing with frameworks, libraries, and snippets since the dawn of ages, it seems. James helps to explain why, from the perspective of a programmer — a very experienced, very expert-level one — frameworks are often developed, used, and published. He talks about the advantages and disadvantages of frameworks to developers, based on of many years of computer science and frameworks being built and used for almost every computer language ever created — years that us web designers simply almost never have (most of us are not programmers at all, and certainly not serious ones who have great experiences outside the realm of simple web scripting).
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A follow up on CSS frameworks
Wow. Less than 24 hours after my last post, there have been nearly 100 comments posted, and I’ve seemingly managed to piss off half the Internet. It seems some people took major offense to my thoughts, although no one has came forward to told me why (Andy Budd said on Twitter, “you’ve managed to tick off quite a few ‘limeys’ with your post,” but he didn’t answer when I asked why.
Of all the topics I’ve ever written about, I would have thought CSS frameworks would be one of the most non-controversial. Apparently, not so. I thought I’d follow up by trying to detail what I’ve learned after a century of commentary on the past in question.
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What’s not to love about CSS frameworks?
Over the past several weeks, I’ve been bombarded (in e-mail, in person, and over IM) with questions about CSS frameworks. I guess I wrote the book on this topic (and contributed, if inadvertently, to one of the most notable CSS frameworks out there), so it’s completely understandable people would come to me with these questions. The question almost always sounds something like this:
“I’ve read what you’ve written about CSS frameworks, and it sounds great…but [insert name of a usually-British CSS guru here] said they were bad. What do you think about what they have to say?”
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Julien Lecomte’s YUI-based Image Cropper Widget
Sweet implementation of an image cropping tool, built with my favorite JavaScript framework, YUI. I will definitely put this one to use. Thanks, Julien!
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24 ways: Intricate Fluid Layouts in Three Easy Steps
Nate Koechley from Yahoo gives you a sweet rundown of how the YUI CSS grid framework works. It really is very, very nice in those cases where you want a symmetrical column grid.
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YUI Bundle for Textmate
Useful.
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The B-List: Django tips: A simple AJAX example, part 2
James Bennett finishes the AJAX/Django example he started the other day with the JavaScript end of things (part one handled the Django end). A nice tutorial, and something I myself need to get more comfortable with doing.
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Carousel Javascript Component
This is almost exactly the presentation style I had in mind for a project at work. Perhaps now we won’t have to write the Javascript to make it happen. Great work here!
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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