Yahoo!
I stumbled into the design patterns piece of it on del.icio.us Monday, but during my periodic look at mezzoblue, the details became more clear. Not only has Yahoo made available to the public a set of design patterns, but a
UI library and other tools.
Rather than duplicating details here, I’ll pass you to Chad Dickerson’s more detailed summary. (Thanks to flashpoint for the ref to Chad’s words on the user interface library.)
February 17th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Very useful reference over there at yahoo. It would be really amazing if they also collected BSD Licensed implementations of the patterns and allowed users to rank them. I like that kind of thing because I’m just a hacker who doesn’t want to do the work for himself. But it would be doubly-handy as a reference.
This kind of lookie-here blog is the best. Some really good links with a little text telling me why I should click on it are the reason I ever look at blogs. Editorial is good too (and the reason I ever keep looking at one specific blog rather than the flavor of the day), but like you said, keep it short.
February 20th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
holy crap I just took a look at the examples linked from Chad Dickerson. Even though I’m not a web developer I want to download this stuff and play with it. Truly fantastic to use. If it is equally easy to plug-in, I would say that Yahoo just outGoogled Google.
February 20th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Yeah… there’s some great stuff in the UI library. What impresses me most though is the multiple sets of information they’ve made available: releasing a set of design patterns and a library of general use javascript objects.
It’s not too hard to find design patterns in one location and javascript object libraries in another, but here you can easily link from patterns to objects that help you implement the pattern and from object to design pattern.
And in theory, as the community grows, both the set of design patterns and the object library will get refined and become more robust.
From a PR perspective, I think this has been a great way to show strong “don’t be evil” action. I’m curious to see whether Google feels the need to counter punch, so as to remind everyone that “don’t be evil” is their motto.