Yahoo! might seem like an old-skool web entity from time to time, with their portal home page and all, but their contribution to next generation web development really shouldn’t be underestimated. I was reminded of this by Andy Baio’s waxy.org today with a link to Yahoo!’s Design Patterns for web developers, and in particular the patterns for managing user reputations.

Yahoo! has also been a long time contributor to MooTools, and Aaron Newton’s Mootorial is still the best introduction to MooTools there is. Web Design patterns