Building Web Interfaces Christian Heilmann UEL Hack Day London, UK, October 2007

Building web interfaces is a fun task.

Building web interfaces is a fun task.

The technologies involved are easy to learn.

The technologies involved are easy to learn.

Text + Images + Multimedia = Content “ What is it about”

Text + Images + Multimedia

=

Content

“ What is it about”

HTML = Structure “ What is what”

HTML

=

Structure

“ What is what”

CSS + Background images = Look and Feel “ How should it be displayed”

CSS + Background images

=

Look and Feel

“ How should it be displayed”

Scripting and Extensions = Behaviour “ How should it behave and react?”

Scripting and Extensions

=

Behaviour

“ How should it behave and react?”

Playing each of these to their respective strengths = great web products.

Playing each of these to their respective strengths =

great web products.

There is one thing to consider though.

There is one thing to consider though.

Browser Operating System Screen Size Screen Resolution Browser Size Plugins and configurations Input Device Reading Level Vision Level of Understanding Motor accuracy

Browser

Operating System

Screen Size

Screen Resolution

Browser Size

Plugins and configurations

Input Device

Reading Level

Vision

Level of Understanding

Motor accuracy

Browser Operating System Screen Size Screen Resolution Browser Size Plugins and configurations Input Device Reading Level Vision Level of Understanding Motor accuracy UNKNOWN

Browser

Operating System

Screen Size

Screen Resolution

Browser Size

Plugins and configurations

Input Device

Reading Level

Vision

Level of Understanding

Motor accuracy

Keeping this in mind makes you a true developer for the web.

Keeping this in mind makes you a true developer for the web.

Be paranoid. Expect the failure.

Be paranoid.

Expect the failure.

Yahoo! has to do that day-in day-out.

Yahoo! has to do that day-in day-out.

People trust us with their data and use our products to connect with other people.

People trust us with their data and use our products to connect with other people.

This is why we hire great developers.

This is why we hire great developers.

This is also why we use their knowledge to make things easier for all.

This is also why we use their knowledge to make things easier for all.

Instead of constantly re-inventing we spy good solutions and learn from mistakes.

Instead of constantly re-inventing we spy good solutions and learn from mistakes.

The outcome of this research is available to you!

The outcome of this research is available to you!

http://developer.yahoo.com

Learn about: Design Patterns Performance Security

Learn about:

Design Patterns

Performance

Security

Tap into the collective wisdom:

Tap into the collective wisdom:

Get friggin famous!!!!

Get friggin famous!!!!

The Yahoo! User Interface Library

The Yahoo! User Interface Library

CSS Framework JavaScript Library Widget Framework Debugging Utility

CSS Framework

JavaScript Library

Widget Framework

Debugging Utility

CSS Components: CSS Reset CSS Fonts CSS Grids Making CSS layouts predictable and working across browsers and operating systems =

CSS Components:

CSS Reset

CSS Fonts

CSS Grids

Making CSS layouts predictable and working across browsers and operating systems

JavaScript Components: DOM Event Connection Animation Making JavaScript development less random across browsers and easier to concentrate on the architecture of your scripts. =

JavaScript Components:

DOM

Event

Connection

Animation

Making JavaScript development less random across browsers and easier to concentrate on the architecture of your scripts.

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. =

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.

Debugging YUI Logger is a cross-browser, cross-platform debugging console. YUITest is a unit and component testing framework in JavaScript

Debugging

YUI Logger is a cross-browser, cross-platform debugging console.

YUITest is a unit and component testing framework in JavaScript

Industrial Strength for everyday solutions

Industrial Strength

for everyday solutions

Comes with full documentation, examples, cheatsheets and quick start guides. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/docs

Comes with full documentation, examples, cheatsheets and quick start guides.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/docs

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-javascript/

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-javascript/

Or at Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/yui

Or at Sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/yui

Others already benefit:

Others already benefit:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-javascript/links/YUI_Implementations_001149002597/

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

We also like to tell people about cool YUI stuff.

We also like to tell people about cool YUI stuff.

http://yuiblog.com

Now go + check the YUI: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

Now go + check the YUI:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

Play with our APIs and Feeds.

Play with our APIs and Feeds.

Answers Local Mail Maps Search Shopping Travel del.icio.us Flickr™ MyBlogLog Pipes Upcoming Webjay Finance HotJobs Traffic Weather

Answers Local Mail Maps Search Shopping Travel del.icio.us Flickr™ MyBlogLog Pipes Upcoming Webjay Finance HotJobs Traffic Weather

Get SDKs to play with our applications: Messenger Music Search Widgets

Get SDKs to play with our applications:

Messenger

Music

Search

Widgets

Christian Heilmann http://wait-till-i.com http://icant.co.uk Thank you! http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Christian Heilmann

http://wait-till-i.com

http://icant.co.uk