More web service style hosting
Yahoo is now offering to serve up your files for you. Well, not exactly, but they are offering to serve up anything related to using the YUI package that they’ve released open-source. More on their blog:
We’re opening up the service of YUI from Yahoo! servers for the same reasons we open-sourced YUI in February: Yahoo! is quintessentially a web company. The progress being made by developers in richness and usability today is healthy for the web and, by extension, good for Yahoo! We want to do everything we can do to enhance that evolution — whether it’s opening up YUI, hosting YUI files, or creating best-of-breed APIs like the recently-announced Browser-Based Authentication system.
At the end of the day, this step has a small incremental cost to Yahoo! while providing a valuable ease-of-implementation advantage to many developers. Serving YUI from Yahoo! servers won’t be the right decision for all implementers; if you’re aggregating or customizing YUI source code and serving it from a highly performant host, there will be little reason to switch. However, for some implementers the provision of free, robust, edge-network hosting will have significant upside.
Very cool. I think the world really is starting to change towards virtual infrastructure.
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