Simon Willison’s Weblog

A Snapshot of The Yahoo! Photos Beta (from 2006). Scott Schiller shares an internal retrospective on the Yahoo! Photos interface from 2006, which was years ahead of its time (they started building it before the term Ajax had even been coined). The material on memory management and event delegation is particularly interesting.

# 12th January 2009, 10:21 pm / eventdelegation, scott-schiller, yahoo, yui, yahoophotos, ajax, javascript

On UI Quality (The Little Things): Client-side Image Resizing. Two neat tips for cleanly scaling down images in IE 6 and 7 from Flickr’s Scott Schiller.

# 12th November 2008, 11 pm / scott-schiller, flickr, imagescaling, ie

SoundManager 2. JavaScript sound API, using a bridge to Flash.

# 16th April 2007, 4:47 pm / flash, javascript, sound, scott-schiller