Building Web Interfaces
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Building Web Interfaces
- 1. Building Web Interfaces Christian Heilmann UEL Hack Day London, UK, October 2007
- 2. Building web interfaces is a fun task.
- 3. The technologies involved are easy to learn.
- 4. Text + Images + Multimedia = Content “ What is it about”
- 5. HTML = Structure “ What is what”
- 6. CSS + Background images = Look and Feel “ How should it be displayed”
- 7. Scripting and Extensions = Behaviour “ How should it behave and react?”
- 8. Playing each of these to their respective strengths = great web products.
- 9. There is one thing to consider though.
- 10. Browser Operating System Screen Size Screen Resolution Browser Size Plugins and configurations Input Device Reading Level Vision Level of Understanding Motor accuracy
- 11. Browser Operating System Screen Size Screen Resolution Browser Size Plugins and configurations Input Device Reading Level Vision Level of Understanding Motor accuracy UNKNOWN
- 12. Keeping this in mind makes you a true developer for the web.
- 13. Be paranoid. Expect the failure.
- 14. Yahoo! has to do that day-in day-out.
- 15. People trust us with their data and use our products to connect with other people.
- 16. This is why we hire great developers.
- 17. This is also why we use their knowledge to make things easier for all.
- 18. Instead of constantly re-inventing we spy good solutions and learn from mistakes.
- 19. The outcome of this research is available to you!
- 21. Learn about: Design Patterns Performance Security
- 22. Tap into the collective wisdom:
- 25. The Yahoo! User Interface Library
- 26. CSS Framework JavaScript Library Widget Framework Debugging Utility
- 27. CSS Components: CSS Reset CSS Fonts CSS Grids Making CSS layouts predictable and working across browsers and operating systems =
- 28. JavaScript Components: DOM Event Connection Animation Making JavaScript development less random across browsers and easier to concentrate on the architecture of your scripts. =
- 29. Widgets: Panel Dialog Autocomplete DataTable Slider Menu Calendar Colorpicker Tabview Rich Text Editor Creating HTML/CSS/JS based RIAs with tested and fully skinnable components. =
- 30. Debugging YUI Logger is a cross-browser, cross-platform debugging console. YUITest is a unit and component testing framework in JavaScript
- 31. Industrial Strength for everyday solutions
- 32. Comes with full documentation, examples, cheatsheets and quick start guides. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/docs
- 34. Or at Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/yui
- 37. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-javascript/links/YUI_Implementations_001149002597/ Newsvine, Opera, O’Reilly, Dow Jones Index, Paypal, Slashdot, Digg, SugarCRM, VersionTracker,iFilm, vBulletin, ebay
- 38. We also like to tell people about cool YUI stuff.
- 40. Now go + check the YUI: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/
- 41. Play with our APIs and Feeds.
- 42. Answers Local Mail Maps Search Shopping Travel del.icio.us Flickr™ MyBlogLog Pipes Upcoming Webjay Finance HotJobs Traffic Weather
- 43. Get SDKs to play with our applications: Messenger Music Search Widgets
- 44. Christian Heilmann http://wait-till-i.com http://icant.co.uk Thank you! http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/