It’s been almost a year since I joined the YUI team and today I welcome my first YUI video. Last week I gave a presentation about the YUI RTE and it’s now available online in the YUI Theater. You can find all of the presentation slides here on my site.
Let me know what you think of my rookie debut on video 
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April 14th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Very nice… I’ve seen a lot of the examples and hacks but there was one or two I’d missed. But the thing I really liked was the discussion of events. I had that feeling playing with examples, etc., but that really helped - especially from my perspective because hacking the RTE is what I’m doing!Good talk. Good luck!
April 18th, 2008 at 3:37 am
Fantastic presentation Dav.I hope you continue to develop the YUI components and your examples.
April 18th, 2008 at 9:17 am
@Blackshark Thanks
April 21st, 2008 at 3:53 am
Nice. :-)Very informative slides and I like your presentation style. Now I really want to dive in and do more with the editor component. Thanks for doing this.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:06 am
I just watched that last night - pretty cool stuff. JUST NOW I noticed an apparent problem with the simple editor: I typed in my name/email/website using the tab key in between the boxes.When I tabed from website, expecting it to jump to the simple editor, it instead jumped to the top of the page. I’m not sure how much trouble that would be to fix, but it’s worth looking at.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Just wanted to let you know that the panels that point to an element (such as the insert/change image panel) might seem cool, but they have a terrible usability problem. The move. A program should never move the window that I’m interacting with. Really never ever, no matter how cool it might seem, it’s not a good thing to do. I sincerely hope you will change that, it will be for the better.
April 25th, 2008 at 11:21 am
I would like to say thanx to you DAV, was searching for place where I can personally than you for your co-support in sending me the link for the multiple instances of yui editor with flickr search, you are just AWESOME
April 25th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
@Nathan — I’m looking into making that work better..
@Mike — That decision was from my Interaction Designer, he spec’d out the movements, I plan on adding a config option to allow for this to be configured.. Please file a Feature Request for it on the Developer site..
@Sachin Your welcome
April 27th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Hi Dav, i just watched your video and i would say you did a great presentation. At this point I would also like to thank everybody working on the YUI. There is no better JS-Framework around!! I’m actualy working on a Datawarehouse tool and it’s fully based on yui…and it’s really funny to work with it. So, please keep on doing such cool things.
May 8th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Hi Dav, I’ve found your talk very helpful. The talks are proving a very powerful (and painless!) means by which we as developers can get up to speed on aspects of the YUI framework.Keep up the good work!-VincentPS Your sample application (complex app) has been a very big help at bridging the gap between examples based on individual widgets and fully functional apps. Any chance of a few more examples of this type? or that the Yahoo Mail applicaion code would be made available?
May 8th, 2008 at 8:23 am
@Jasmin Thanks
I can’t say anything about the Yahoo! Mail application since I don’t work for that team 
@Vincent Thanks, I have a a couple more in mind using YUILoader
May 14th, 2008 at 8:51 am
great job dav. love the site, love to love the yui. just learned about yui a few weeks ago and have found it very useful (animations, drag and drop, menus, rte).
May 16th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Great video Dav, you done an amazing job! Seemed a bit nervous to begin with, but you really went deep with the dicussion and the examples! Great job. I hope to see more.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
@Jermaine –
Thanks, I was a little nervous at first, it was my first video presentation
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:40 am
Dav, I liked your presentation! Also, I’d like to say thanks, both for your work and for the entire YUI team’s work. You’ve produced an impressive piece of software, which isn’t that difficult, but you have also followed it with great documentation, impressive support and a series of video presentations. That is very rare and very difficult to do.Please continue — I’d really like to see more of those video presentations.
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:21 am
@Jan –
Thanks for the feedback
June 4th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
I agree completely with Jan Rychter, YUI has made my life so much simpler as a developer - the tools themselves and the documentation that these tools come with are amazing. I also have to add that Kudos are in order to Dav, because I posted a technical question about the YUI Editor on his blog, and I got a reply a lot sooner than I expected.Thanks a bunch, David Glass (decoded binary included in the footer of your site’s pages)
June 4th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
@Serge — Thanks
June 15th, 2008 at 11:16 am
I tried including every yahoo include and all possible css involved and could not get the wysiwyg editor to render on a page with few css. i tried using the source examples provided on the yahoo site and in the video.
June 15th, 2008 at 11:41 am
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June 15th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Dav, I discovered the YUI library yesterday and found your video on the developer site. First, let me say that your presentation was awesome.I have an application where the Editor will come in really handy if I can divide the text area pane into sections. I’ve got a feeling I can do this by opening up several editor areas at the same time, but I haven’t really had a chance to dig into the code yet. From your presentation it sounds as if it will be very easy to modify, so I look forward to getting my hands dirty.Thanks!
June 15th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
I am an idiot. i didnt set the body class. thank you for your hard work. i hope i didnt waste your time. happy fathers day.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:08 am
@RA Thanks
@james That is an all too common mistake, I hope we (the YUI team) solve that better..
June 24th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Dav,Great video tutorial, thanks. I will have a go at customising the YUI RTE for my own CMS application, it looks perfect. I was wondering if the WordPress plugin is compatible with the latest WP version 2.5.1? Thanks.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
@Caz — First thanks, second the plugin hasn’t been updated to support 2.5 yet as my blog hasn’t been upgraded yet
June 26th, 2008 at 8:36 am
“Let me know what you think of my rookie debut on video “You did very well. You sound like an accomplished speaker, not a rookie.Thanks for RTE. I’ve passed it on to one of my clients for consideration in its project.01000100 01100001 01110110 01101001 01100100 00100000 01000111 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110011 = “DavidGlass”Do I win something?
June 26th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Oops, typo, = ”David Glass”
July 10th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Thank you from Poland