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YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1

By Brennan Spies - Posted on August 14th, 2008
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The Yahoo! User Interface development team has released the first preview version of YUI 3.0. According to the team blog, there are 5 goals for the new release: lighter code (in kb), faster code (fewer HTTP requests, more compact code), greater API consistency, more powerful API capability, and more securable code.

What's New?

  • Sandboxing: each YUI instance can now be separated from other instances via YUI.use()
  • Modularity: YUI 3.0 is architected to use smaller, more re-usable modules.
  • Self-completing: With the seed file in place, you can tell YUI what modules you want to use, and it will download them in a single HTTP request.
  • Selectors: Elements can be targeted via CSS selector idioms (much like jQuery)
  • Enhanced Custom Events: Custom Events in YUI 3.0 have been enhanced with support for bubbling, stopping propagation, assigning/preventing default behaviors, among other things.
  • Nodes and NodeLists: You can now reference elements via Node and NodeList facades, allowing a more fluid API.
  • Chaining: YUI is adopting a fluent interface style, using method chaining to achieve greater expressiveness (and compactness)

For those who don't like the jQuery-style fluent interfaces in YUI 3.0, a more explicit/verbose API is still available. YUI 3.0 will not be completely backward compatible with YUI 2.0, but there will be a limited compatibility layer.

You can download the preview release here. A final release is not anticipated until next year.