It’s been an exciting couple of weeks in the YUI community with some great new gallery modules (Storage Lite, Simple Menu, and more good ones coming). Here’s some other recent news, featuring two nice YUI demos from the prolific Christian Heilmann (who was recently on YUI Theater talking about how to be prolific about building great demos) and YUI-related gems from Carlos Bueno and Vincent Hardy. Use the comments below or find us at @YUILibrary to let us know what we missed.
“Accent Folding” in YUI AutoComplete by Carlos Bueno on @alistapart: One of our favorite writers in the world of F2E is Carlos Bueno, and he has another excellent, timely article out — this time on the challenges of writing good autocomplete implementations using international character sets. Here’s how Carlos describes the problem:
Consider this address book:
Fulanito López
Erik Lørgensen
Lorena Smith
James Lö
If I compose a new message and type “lo” in the To: field, what should happen? In many applications only Lorena will show up…
