YUI has announced a major new release with the  immediate availability of YUI 2.4.

Key Features:

• Selector Utility: Following in the footsteps of most other toolkits, YUI now includes a CSS Selector.  This beta component includes much of the standard CSS3 selector syntax including the proposed Selector extensions.
• Charting: Using a hybrid Flash / Javascript model, a new charting component has been released with support for bar, line and pie charts.  Of special note is the fact that the charting utility utilizes the same data model as the data table implementation allowing hybrid chart / table interfaces.
• Get: dynamically load scripts and nodes via the new Get tools.
• Profiler: This combined with YUI Test will allow you to quickly and efficiently determine profiles and unit tests.  Most notably, profiler allows unit tests based on performance to be performed.
• JSON Utility: dramatically improved JSON support.

Behind the scenes:

Incremental improvments to: Calendar, Drag & Drop & Button controls.

Dramatic enhancements & customization support added to the Rich Text Editor:

Read about the release here:

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/12/04/yuii-240/

Today we conclude our series of posts on space & dimension with an exploration of YUI’s Spacial capabilities. Many of YUI’s capabilities aren’t readily apparent from the component level documentation. One exception are the setXY & getXY functions.

• setXY & getXY operate on the top left corner of an Element relative to the top left corner of the document.
• A companion getXY is provided with the YUI event object to determine the location of clicks.

A look at YUI’s API’s reveals a second, powerful class for dealing with 2d space. The YUI region class is a representation of an object on a grid. Region provides the top, left, right & bottom locations in a rectangular shape. Region is not a tool for manipulating the dom, rather it is a utility class for determining the union, intersection, area and other properties of a defined rectangular area.

YUI lacks many of the capabilities for handling scrolls, widths & heights we’ve encountered in other toolkits but still provides a reasonably capable set of tools with which to handle locations within a document.