I don’t know about you, but when I discovered the Yahoo! developers section on their web site I was in a state of disbelief at how much stuff it had on it. It takes ages to realise the depth that Yahoo have covered.
The main areas they cover are JavaScript, Flash, .NET, PHP, Python and Ruby.
I particularly like the design patterns section of the site where Yahoo provide “optimal solutions to common problems within a specific context”. Brilliant!
By far the most useful section is YUI that provide utilities and controls for building rich interactive web applications… And its all open source!
In fact, the stimulation for this article has come from watching a video from Joe Hewitt (the co-founder of Firefox) demonstrating his iUi for the iPhone. It basically uses similar principles to the Yahoo User Interface kit, but optimized for the iPhone (note: the iPhone, despite having a very good browser, has limitation, especially with mouse events). it inspired my to take another look at Yahoo!s dev stuff. [Just as a side note: is anyone else excited about Facebook's acquisition of parakey.]
Anyway, I better get back to re-exploring the Yahoo! developers site.