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Leveraging the YUI – A Functional News Scroller Part One(updated)
Most of you will probably already know what the Yahoo! UI Library (YUI) is and what it can do, but for those of you that don't I'll give it a brief introduction. The YUI is an extensive collection of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, that you can use to build rich, interactive and attractive web applications. The scripts make heavy use of AJAX and DOM scripting, and are supported across a range of browsers making them ideal for use in many design situations.
The YUI can be downloaded from Yahoo and used free of charge for personal or commercial websites. There is a wealth of resources and documentation for them on the Yahoo Developer Network site http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/#support so it's well worth having a look there. Additionally, Yahoo also provides a service whereby you don't download the files yourself, but instead reference minimal versions of the files on Yahoo's servers. This way, Yahoo will serve the files for you.
Dan Wellman
Dan Wellman is an author and web developer based in the UK. Dan has written three books so far; the latest, jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery, was released at the end of 2009.
Dan has been writing web development tutorials for over 5 years and works by day for a local digital media agency in his home town of Southampton.