Yahoo! has recently announced they have redone their bookmarks section and symfony was how they did it. In a post on the Symfony blog, symfony tells why Yahoo! chose them.

Why did Yahoo! choose our framework? According to Michael Salisbury, Technical Yahoo!, who was kind enough to give us his feedback, the major strengths of symfony over its competitors are:

• Great documentation
• Explicit and extensive configurability
• Active development
• Use of best-of-breed components rather than building everything again

The documentation was the first reason to choose symfony. It reaches a unique quality and coverage in the open-source world.

Michael emphasized that the configurability of symfony made it possible not only to translate the interface, but also to propose different features to every country and localize the application completely.

With Yahoo! Bookmarks having 20 million users and available in 12+ languages - symfony definately has something to celebrate.

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