After throwing a few stiff jabs Yahoo’s direction in the last post, let me give them props for doing something right. Libras love balance.

The Yahoo! User Interface Blog describes its mission:

… is the companion blog for two libraries we’re proudly releasing today. The new Yahoo! Design Pattern Library offers our thinking on common interface design issues for traditional and rich Internet applications. The new Yahoo! User Interface Library is a collection of industrial-grade JavaScript utilities and widgets that enable you to efficiently get the most out of today’s powerful browsers. In both cases, these are the exact same things that power Yahoo! today.

For somebody who hasn’t done that much with AJAX (moi), I’m excited by these two libaries and even more excited by the BSD licensing. Unlike the developer APIs which have commercial restrictions (have they lifted them yet, haven’t checked in awhile?).

[Sidenote: If they haven’t relaxed their APIs then somebody over there should say: if they are using YPN to monetize something with our own APIs then we should let them do that, doh!]

Haven’t fully dug into this stuff but I like what I see here. Nice work, Yahoo. I continue to be impressed with what Yahoo does with the developer side of the triangle (user/siteowner/developer).

Did this post make you go hmm?

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