“Overview of custom component changes in Adobe Flex 4” and other links…
Adobe Edge: August 2009: “One of the biggest complaints about Flex is how heavy components need to be. Unless you specifically write all your components from scratch based on UIComponent, your applications can quickly get bogged down. One reason is because there is no clear delineation between skinnable and nonskinnable objects. The thinking seemed to be: Why wouldn’t you want to skin an object? Flex applications are supposed to be rich and beautiful. While that’s true for the most part, there are times when you have to display say 100,000 pieces of data on-screen, and you don’t want pretty—you just want fast. The new Group class makes that possible.”
“Date Formatting with YUI”
Yahoo! User Interface Blog: “To recap, we can format dates using YUI using the YAHOO.util.Date class, which is currently distributed as part of the DataSource utility. Any valid strftime format specifier is supported, so for example, YAHOO.util.Date.format(new Date(), { format: "%Y-%b-%d"}); would return the date as <four digit year>-<short month name>-<two digit day of month>.”
“SlickMap CSS—A Visual Sitemapping Tool for Web Developers”
“SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites—accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links—and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences. …The general idea of SlickMap CSS is to streamline the web design process by automating the illustration of sitemaps while at the same time allowing for the predevelopment of functional HTML navigation.”