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8 practical tips to make your web pages faster
Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance team has compiled a list of 34 best practices to have faster web pages. In this post I’ll show you 8 tips which helped me to get a B grade in YSlow! for web pages that I develop. Currently YSlow’s web page analysis is based on 13 identified basic rules that affect [...]
Show/hide containers by only adding CSS classes without writing javascript code (YUI-based)
This post will show you how to add the collapse/expand functionality in your HTML pages, perfect for FAQs by only adding two class names to your existing page and including the scripts below. Of course it’s all YUI-based and also a demo of the fantastic YUI selector utility.
Demo of the toggler
Download the javascript file
What does [...]
nouzil.com - a new Mauritian portal on the web (YUI-based)
I came to know the existing of a new Mauritian portal via Avinash called nouzil (which means our island in creole) and I must say at first look it reminds me of Netvibes a lot. I think the nouzil.com team picked up some bits and pieces from Netvibes.com.
Anyway, looking behind the scenes I notice that [...]
YUI-based alert box - replace your ugly javascript alert box
This tutorial will explain how you can override the default alert box of your browser, without modifying your existing code and by adding 2 lines of javascript code.
Demo of the alert box
Download javascript file
Those 2 famous lines
After downloading the package and extracting it to your folder, add the following lines at the end of your [...]
Expanding/collapsing javascript menu
In this post I’ll show you how to create an expanding/collapsing menu like Slashdot left menu used to be, using the YUI library and Dav Glass YUI effects widget.
Preview of the script we are going to build.
The HTML markup for our menu is :
<div id="menu"><h1 id="menu-title">Menu</h1><div id="menu-links"><ul><li>Home</li><li>About</li><li>CSS</li></ul></div></div>
We use 2 div tags, one for holding the [...]
YUI-based numeric stepper widget
Since I had some problems with YUI slider, I decided to write a YUI-based numeric stepper that allows users to select values within a predefined range.
To instantiate the widget include the following files :
<!– CSS –>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stepper/stepper.css" />
<!– Dependencies –>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.5.2/build/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js"></script>
<!– Stepper source file –>
<script type="text/javascript" src="stepper/stepper-min.js"></script>
Then place your stepper in your [...]
Simple YUI Cookie example - javascript text magnifier for your page
Since YUI 2.5.0 there’s the Cookie utility and at this time of posting, it’s still in beta version.
I’ll show you how we can use this simple utility to write a small javascript app.
The piece of code we will be writing, using the YUI library (my favorite), will allow users to increase/decrease their font size for [...]
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