YUI Library / BayJax: February 6, 2012

At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer Eric Gelinas spoke about the challenges involved in building interfaces for geotagging and mapping. Using examples from Flickr and other sites, he covered the dos and don'ts of building geo interfaces and shared what he learned while building Flickr's geotagging UI.

At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer and SoundManager developer Scott Schiller uncovered HTML5 audio's dark and dirty secrets, and explained why he thinks both HTML5 audio and Flash audio have their place. Then he wowed the audience with a couple of spectacular live demos that you won't want to miss.

At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer Stephen Woods shared his hard-won advice for building responsive touch-based interfaces using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. He also revealed how Star Trek: The Next Generation predicted the need for instant user feedback in a touch-based UI and how Tivo's slow UI was made bearable by a simple "bloop" sound.