Yahoo! opens pattern library.

Yahoo have written about the process of creating a pattern library, and now released it under a BSD license . I'm sure that this is probably a lot to do with attracting developers and generating goodwill; but also hope that it will reduce duplication of effort and poor practices, and speed up the development process. The design patterns all have accessibility sections - which is great to see. Yahoo! aren't the first to relase DHTML / AJAX widgit libraries like this though, also see:

Google's open source AJAX libraries

ActiveWidget

Prototype

Blueshoes


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