Yahoo publishes User Interface & Design Pattern Libraries

Continuing the Web 2.0 theme that’s started here lately (though in a less sarcastic vein, heh), here’s a discussion of the recent release of the AJAX/DHTML library that Yahoo uses, along with a corresponding Design Pattern library:

 http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/2006/02/yahoo-libraries-released-ajax-patterns.html

It’s full of useful links for you coder and pattern-user types.

These libraries have all been released under the Creative Commons license. This seems like an interesting strategy to fight Google… release your stuff for free so people start building stuff like yours, then people will be used to your stuff instead of Google’s. Very technical. : )