Web UI

14 February 2006

Yahoo have just released a UI library for online apps – bravo to them, and all that.

I’m hoping that this sort of thing will become more widespread – and while in some ways I’d prefer to see something come out of the non-comercial sector, so that we don’t inadvertently become locked in to another commercial development platform, this library looks like it’s under a nice licence, so I’m not going to complain to much.

However, at the moment it still looks like it only skims the surface of the functionality we could be building into a web UI library; where’s the split view, for example? Or a good rich text editor? It’ll be really great when we have robust, proven widgets that handle most of our day to day web app functionality, and even better if the majority starts using them – maybe then we’ll get some interface consistency on the web…

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14 February 2006