In the meantime, I will look for a way to link up the old ones so they play in their own window(s). Probably should have done that in the first place.

Finally found my way back here. :-) When one publishes a magazine, it’s difficult to keep up with the dialogue going on elsewhere.

I’m so glad you’ll be restoring the animations in a new and improved form. Wise decision not to let creating them delay your launch, but in the meantime, I do wish Yahoo! had left the animations up on the Web somewhere.

I was checking out the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library just yesterday, hoping to find some new demos, so I could include a link to them in a column I just wrote for UXmatters:

Specifying Behavior: With an Example Menu Behavior Specification

http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2010/01/specifying-behavior-with-an-example-menu-behavior-specification.php

I did include links to YUI 2 and YUI 3, but your pattern library provides a much more pleasant experience.

Pabini

The animations were a bit of a hack using javascript and animated gifs and they didn’t fit the new form factor of the pattern template and it would have been very difficult to “trim” them to work in that context.

We do plan to bring them back but with a more “modern” embedded-video style of technology. It’s a very high priority for me. I just wasn’t willing to delay the relaunch any longer for that one feature.

I do apologize for losing them, as I know it’s really important, especially with the rich patterns, to show and not just tell.