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On a page refresh just now, I noticed the quick flicker of what look to be some style elements from the default skins provided for sliders. It looked like some thumb graphics were in the top left of my page for a moment, and then they disappeared.

Also, at the bottom of my screen, it said something about loading from "yahoo.api.com"

There seem to be two related problems here.

One is that the YUI libraries seem to be loading default skin graphics and CSS from the Yahoo server. Something in the YUI default ("sam skins"...?) is probably what is causing the excess space at the top of the page.

The other issue is that the scripts are downloading from the YUI server at all. I need my entire site to be completely local, in that all the libraries, graphics, files, and everything are all in one place on my own server. I don't want YUI dynamically loading anything from the yahoo server or anywhere else.

Assuming that the mysterious space at the top of my page is coming from some default YUI CSS over riding my local CSS, the question becomes: How do I prevent YUI from using anything except my CSS and graphics?

Further, how do I stop it trying to dynamically load anything at all? If there are any libraries I need, I would rather manually copy them to my server.

Thank you for any advice

If you are serving YUI from your local server, make sure you download the zip distribution. The CSS files in the zip do not have references to yui.yahooapis.com.

To prevent the loader from fetching YUI CSS, set the 'fetchCSS' config attribute to false.

Hey Dave,

To use yui in a bubble for iphone/android/etc, you will have to download the zip (as adam mentioned), and reconfigure the loader to use your local copy, instead of the Y! CDN copy.

In your case, the slider is not working because you have fetchCSS: false, which means that none of the CSS files associated with the modules (in this case slider) will be included in the page dynamically, you have to do it manually as a simple "link".

Check this page:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/api/config.html

Those are all the configuration options that you can use to set up the loader correctly. My recommendation is to use "fetchCSS: true" but set up the "base" to point to your local copy.

Best Regards,
Caridy

Hmm, I see. Why do you want to ship only a piece of the library? Why don't you ship the whole "build" folder? It's not that big actually.

I guess only the configurator will help you to identify the pieces you need to ship, but still it's very complicated, and you will have to do the same for every iteration of the library due internal refactoring processes. My recommendation is to ship 'build' folder.

Best Regards,
Caridy

Dave,

Caridy wasn't suggesting you actually send the entire build/ folder to you user, just that you have it on your server so that it's available for inclusion if you need it, and use() will pull in what it needs.