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Learning the Yahoo! User Interface Library - Book

By David Hurth - Posted on October 6th, 2008
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I've been looking at a book from PACKT Publishing about Learning the Yahoo! User Interface Library. The book is one of the few good books available on the YUI. If you are like me you enjoy reading blogs for quicker reads, but for in-depth reads you find a traditional book better.

The book takes you from installing the YUI and and Code Placement through Ajax calls and Drag and Drop events. Learning the Yahoo! User Interface also takes you through debugging the YUI way and using content containers and tabs (just to name a few more topics).

Each chapter goes over a small example project about the topic of the chapter. For example Chapter 7 talks about navigation and AutoComplete with code for navigation options and a nice AutoComplete example. The book is well written and has an easy to follow format.

You can read the full table of contents here.

One thing that is really nice about books written by PACKT Publishing on an open source project is that they pay a royalty to the open source project. So, you not only get to learn about the open source project, but you also support it with the purchase of the book.

This book is a must for anybody that is interested in implementing a project with the YUI JavaScript library. I would recommend it for those of you that are new to YUI and even to those who have used it for a while.

You can purchase the book here (available in traditional and e-book formats).

If you want to see a fun application written with YUI check out World of Solitaire (watch out, you can spend quite a bit of time playing it!)