Muthukumar Rajamani : Interaction Designer/Manager, Bangalore

Product Experience Management,User Reseach at Cisco Systems, India

Look Ma, All App and No Code!

YUI simply rocks! Yahoo also serves up code for FREE! ( But err…. if you use code directly from Yahoo’s servers, you are likely to encounter some latency)

Here’s a wierd idea on what Yahoo can do next with YUI… Come up with http://designer.yahoo.com/yui

Build an WYSIWYG IDE (could be web based) based on YUI, for designers who cant hard-code and
enable them to build web 2.0 kinda front end apps ( atleast prototypes), by dragging and dropping components. ( Just like how Dreamweaver enabled designers to design HTML pages without writing code). Yahoo can also create readymade Web 2.0 app templates. What say?

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29 May 2007 at 08:48 - Comments
Umesh
Great idea. Is yahoo listening?
29 May 07 at 09:07
Nate Koechley
Hi Muthu,

Thanks for the suggestion. It’s an interesting idea.

Thanks,
Nate

Nate Koechley
YUI Team, Yahoo!
29 May 07 at 12:16
Umesh
Cool they heard you :)
30 May 07 at 00:13
Umesh
oh btw did u sign up for Popfly?. Seems to be good; a designer’s “Yahoo pipes”.
30 May 07 at 03:41
Muthu
Nate, thanks for dropping in! I’ve been working on a simple app using yui for a while.

CSS Grid builder tool is awesome. If the coloumn-width/height and other parameters are made editable on the fly, then it would rock even more.

Will add “feature requests” at Sourceforge.net
30 May 07 at 04:20
Muthu
Umesh, just signed up for Popfly, guess it would take a while for them to grant me access. Did you get access as yet?
30 May 07 at 04:20
Umesh
Yes i just got an invitation and granted access
30 May 07 at 08:54