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The first preview release for jQuery UI 1.8 is out. You can download it here:
Download
File Downloads
- Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-1.8a1.zip
Svn
Changelog
See the 1.8a1 Changelog for full details on what’s included in this release.
New Plugins
In addition to a number of bug fixes, this release adds three new plugins:
Please help us test these out and beat them up. The plan is to have one more alpha releases, and then two beta releases. New plugins may be added still before the first beta. The plugins in the first 1.8 beta will be the plugins in 1.8 final.
Thanks
A big thanks to all that have worked on creating these new plugins, incorporating them into this release, as well as all the bug fixes and other improvements that have gone into this release.
The second maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.7 is out. You can download it here:
Download
File Downloads
- Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-1.7.2.zip
- Themes Package: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-themes-1.7.2.0.zip
Svn
- Tag: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.7.2/
- Themes: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.7.2/themes/
Google Ajax Libraries API
- Uncompressed: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/jquery-ui.js
- Compressed: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/jquery-ui.min.js
- Themes:
base, black-tie, blitzer, cupertino, dark-hive, dot-luv, eggplant, excite-bike, flick, hot-sneaks, humanity, le-frog, mint-choc, overcast, pepper-grinder, redmond, smoothness, south-street, start, sunny, swanky-purse, trontastic, ui-darkness, ui-lightness, and vader.
Custom Download Builder
Changelog
See the 1.7.2 Changelog for full details on what’s included in this release.
New Themes
Filament Group has done it again. They’ve given us 7 more beautiful themes in the ThemeRoller Gallery:
- Dark Hive
- Eggplant
- Flick
- Le Frog
- Overcast
- Pepper Grinder
- Sunny
Overhauled Download Builder
A huge thanks to Gavin Mulligan, one of our newest contributors, for doing a complete overhaul of our download builder, fixing issues people were having with invalid zip files and missing theme files on certain browsers and platforms.
Also, a big thanks to all that helped identify issues in the old and test the new download builder: Aaron Barker, agnawt, Attila, Bear, Beaver6813, boater21, Brian McManus, brucealdridge, cblaze22, cioa, Cloudream, compsagnathus, davidcoallier, dgm, dp, dpaviani, engemasa, evo, garrardkitchen, Glauco Morais, gmaddockgreene, gtrplayer5150, hanmari, Hans Petter, hdragomir, joern.zaefferer, joldag, Julián C. Pérez, kareem, Karl, Keith Barrows, Kelheinz, khinester, Kim Rowden, KingCode, Lakshmi, latrippi, linuxjuggler, Logictrap, Matthew, mawcs, MorningZ, nilicule, p8w, Paul Bakaus, Petre KOSTOV, Phoenix Sol, pnanduri76, rdworth, rsm08, rwalsh, Rwhitbeck, Scott González, Scott Jehl, SexyBeast, SiCo, smorgen, sosensible, sotonin, Spencer, ssr, steenbag, steve_goodman, Todd Parker, tonybibbs, utobia, WanderingZombie
A couple days late to press this week. Friday and Saturday were filled with the first ever JavaScript Conference, JSConf 2009. What a weekend! jQuery UI was represented by Scott González and myself (Richard Worth). Scott gave a presentation on creating a widget using the jQuery UI widget factory. I did an introduction to jQuery UI.
Releases
I mentioned the jQuery UI 1.6 release last week as it was available for download. Now the full changelog and blog post are out.
Next up is 1.7.2. We made some progress on that during the sprint. A few more issues to wrap up, and that should be out this week. Speaking of the sprint, thanks to all that participated.
Design & Development
With 1.6 finalized and 1.7 nearing a freeze, the jQuery UI team is shifting focus to 1.8 and beyond. With the recent plugin prioritization, we updated the planned plugins list on the Dev & Planning wiki home. Our focus is currently on the high priority plugins. Please take a look at those plugin pages and see if we’ve missed anything. If you have ideas about each plugin’s requirements, design, or specifications, feel free to edit the page, or leave a comment. If you’ve don’t have a wiki account, there’s a link at the top to request access. We’d love your input.
Sites Using jQuery UI
We maintain a list of Sites Using jQuery UI. If you have a site or find a site using jQuery UI, feel free to add it to this wiki page. New this week:
Sites
- AxiList
- BEST MEDIAFORGE – Webdesign and Develoment from Bielefeld, Germany
- BlackBerry. Storm
- J&P Cycles – Keeping the World on Two Wheels!!
- kendericks.com – Specialty retailer of professional products to graduate and undergraduate students in the US
- momo – a private memo application for the Web and iPhone/iPod touch
- Osimo Community Forums – Official forums for the open-source forum project Osimo
- UniFaction – A roleplaying forum community using a modified version of Osimo
- VersionOne – V1 IdeaSpace
Open source projects
- Osimo – A jQuery/jQuery UI enhanced forum system
- pqp – PHP Quick Profiler
- Remedie – Pluggable media center application
Tutorials and Blog Posts
- Filament Group, Scott Jehl: Update: jQuery UI Slider from a Select Element - now with ARIA Support
- blog.nemikor.com, Scott González: Loading a page into a dialog
- bassistance.de, Jörn Zaefferer: Contributing to jQuery UI Autocomplete
- Design-Notes: Build a simple cost estimator with jQuery UI Slider
- MSDN Magazine, Dino Esposito: Cutting Edge: Build Rich User Interfaces with jQuery
- Smashing Magazine, Sam Swyer: Progressive Enhancement: What It Is, And How To Use It?
- Remote Synthesis: Adding and Removing Tabs with jQuery and jQuery UI
- Remote Synthesis: Cross-Browser, User-Sorted Tables with jQuery
ThemeRoller-ready Plugins
See also
As always, be sure to follow This Week in jQuery on the jQuery blog.
The legacy compatibility update release, jQuery UI 1.6 is out. You can download it here:
Download
File Downloads
- Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery.ui-1.6.zip
Svn
Google Ajax Libraries API
- Uncompressed: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.6/jquery-ui.js
- Compressed: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.6/jquery-ui.min.js
Custom Download Builder
Changelog
See the 1.6 Changelog for full details on what’s included in this release.
Reminder
This is a legacy update release for 1.5. It is intended for anyone still using jQuery 1.2.6. If you’re able to upgrade to jQuery 1.3+, it is highly recommended that you use jQuery UI 1.7, which is the latest stable release.
Releases
The 1.6 release was finalized last night, and is available for download on jqueryui.com. The blog post will go out as soon as the changelog is finished and Google’s CDN is updated.
Reminder: this is a legacy compatibility release for anyone still needing to use jQuery UI with jQuery 1.2.6, and will not be further developed. It is highly recommended you upgrade to 1.7 as soon as possible.
The Sprint
The jQuery UI Sprint is happening right now. Come join us! See the sprint wiki page for full info.
Sites Using jQuery UI
We maintain a list of Sites Using jQuery UI. If you have a site or find a site using jQuery UI, feel free to add it to this wiki page. New this week:
Sites
- Daimoku chart – an online community that helps you, find out what you’re destined to do in life
- MapMyRide – Map your Cycling and Mountain Biking Routes
- myPlymouth – Plymouth State University Campus Portal
- Portable Ubuntu for Windows
- TextVoz – Realtime TTS (Text-to-Speach)
Tutorials and Blog Posts
- blog.nemikor.com, Scott González: Basic usage of the jQuery UI dialog
- .net DEvHammer, gduthie: New DevNugget: Using jQuery UI in ASP.NET
- IBM developerWorks, Michael Abernethy: Working with jQuery, Part 2: Intermediate JQuery: The UI project
Themes
- smellsblue.blogspot.com, Mike Stone: hot dog stand theme
Jobs
- jobs.jsninja.com: jQuery/JavaScript freelancer needed
See also
If you liked This Week in jQuery UI, you’ll love This Week in jQuery.
The jQuery UI Team is pleased to announce its second Worldwide sprint, to take place this Friday April 17th and Saturday 18th, 2009. Two full days of testing, fixes, documentation, and general getting-stuff-done. Our goal is ready the 1.7.2 release, so we can start focusing on 1.8 and beyond, and we invite any and all to help. Whether you have an hour, or an afternoon, come and run really fast with us.
How Will It Work?
We’ll all gather in IRC (#jqueryui-sprint on freenode) throughout the two-day sprint, with a couple of scheduled meetings to keep everyone on the same page, and make sure things keep moving. Other than that we’ll just be doing as much as we can, as fast as we can. Opening tickets, closing tickets, breaking stuff, fixing other things, and everyone’s favorite pastime: documentation (and demos). Take a look at last year’s sprint page to see what we accomplished.
I’m New Here. Can I Help?
Absolutely. If you’ve thought about contributing to jQuery or jQuery UI before, but never really found the right moment or momentum, this sprint is the perfect time to get involved. A number of members of the jQuery UI Team will be around to help people get started, especially if it’s your first time. We’ll help you help us, in whatever way you want. That could be testing, documentation, ticket triage, bug fixes, writing demos, contributing to the planning wiki or even just playing with new stuff as we churn it out, and providing valuable feedback.
More Details
We’ve created a wiki page to help coordinate this big event. It has some more details on what is planned, how to jump in, and will be updated throughout the sprint to show status and next steps.
Tell us you’re coming!
We invite you to add your name to the wiki page as a participant, if you’re interested, even if you have only a few hours (or aren’t sure how much time you’ll have). Also, feel free to specify what you’re willing and/or able to do. Thanks!
Releases and the Sprint
We pushed everything back one week. So the 1.6 final release will be next Wed. April 15th. The sprint will be next Friday and Saturday, April 17th and 18th, in preparation for the 1.7.2 release on Wed. April 22nd. We’ve created a wiki page for the sprint to start the planning:
http://wiki.jqueryui.com/Worldwide-Sprint-2
You’re invited to sign up there if you plan to join, even if just for an hour. Also, there will be a full sprint blog post on Monday with more details.
Sites Using jQuery UI
We maintain a list of Sites Using jQuery UI. If you have a site or find a site using jQuery UI, feel free to add it to this wiki page. New this week:
Sites
- blaq design – manufacturer of bike accessories and bags
- CG2.cc – ConcertoGate(MMOPRG) role simulator
- Rig-Bits – Find bits for your computer and PC Bits Database (under development).
Open source projects
Tutorials and Blog Posts
- Nettuts, Dan Wellman: Create a Progress Bar With Javascript
- .NET Answers, Dave: jQuery Tabs
- The Why and The How, Blake Schwendiman: jQuery modal dialog
- Site-Reference.com, Jamie Munro: Drag and drop category management with CakePHP
- Next step of programming, A.Sethi: Using JQuery UI in ASP.NET MVC
See also
Stay tuned for tonight’s installment of ‘This Week in jQuery’ over on the jQuery blog.
Releases
No releases this week. The 1.7.2 release was rescheduled for Apr. 15.
Plugin Prioritization
The jQuery UI Team completed a prioritization this week. This is the second time we’ve completed this process. The first was in late 2008, when we changed the direction of the 1.6 and 1.7 releases, and focused on ThemeRoller v2 and the jQuery UI CSS Framework. The Development & Planning wiki home page has been updated with the priority column for each plugin. We welcome any help in getting these plugins designed and built over the next couple of months. Note that this priority is not tied directly to our release cycle. This means the 1.8 release will not necessarily contain the plugins that currently have the highest priority. But it gives us as a team some focus and sequencing. For example, there are a number of high priority utility plugins right now that we’re tackling first because they’re dependencies of a number of medium priority widgets. So we need to design and build them first.
Save The Date: jQuery UI Sprint
We’re planning a sprint for next Thu.-Sat. (Apr. 9-11). It will all be online, and anyone is welcome to participate as little or as much as they’re able. More details to come next week.
JsMag
The first issue of JsMag included an article on jQuery 1.3, and was featured in the first volume of This Week in jQuery. The second issue was published this week and includes an article on jQuery UI.
Q&A with jQuery UI Release Manager Richard Worth
It was my turn this week. Steve Reynolds is back with another jQuery UI team member interview:
- reynoldsftw.com: Q&A with jQuery UI Release Manager Richard Worth
Sites Using jQuery UI
We maintain a list of Sites Using jQuery UI. If you have a site or find a site using jQuery UI, feel free to add it to this wiki page. New this week:
- DealBase.com – the largest collection of hotel deals on the web
- PRTG Network Monitor – Network Monitoring Software from Paessler AG
- ShedokanOS (Operating System)
- teilesuche24 – German Autoparts Store
- TUIfly – the airline with the inexpensive fares
- Virgilio Community – Community section of Virgilio, an italian portal
Games
- jQuery Love: jQuery Blackjack uses jQuery UI and a ThemeRoller theme
Tutorials and Blog Posts
- Filament Group: jQuery Menu: Dropdown, iPod Drilldown, and Flyout styles with ARIA Support and ThemeRoller Ready
- Lamoree Software: jQuery UI Dialog Widget Screencast
- Stuart Loxton: jQuery UI Dialogs, the quick and easy way
Jobs
- Rent A Coder: Jquery UI Job(repost)
Be sure to check out This Week in jQuery.
Welcome back to This Week in jQuery UI.
Releases
jQuery UI 1.6rc2.6
Things were looking good for getting 1.6 final out this week, but we’ve still got one issue with the Resizable plugin. Big thanks to Scott González and Nick Levett for working on this. We’re about half-way there. In the meantime, you can beat up 1.6rc2.6. This includes the resizable fixes Scott was able to merge. It improves things, but we still want to fix it the rest of the way. Here’s the lone ticket: #4334 - Real World Image Cropper demo is broken.
Sites Using jQuery UI
We maintain a list of Sites Using jQuery UI. If you have a site or find a site using jQuery UI, feel free to add it to this wiki page. New this week:
Sites
- Arcadya – Torrents & subtitles for TV series (iGoogle/Netvibes style)
- Beltrami – Product selector, picture albums, searchfunctions, …
- EA – Video Games
- iRich – Keep tracking your expenses online. (Chinese 中文)
- kolko.bg – The only reliable Bulgarian Internet shopping assistant.
- MacWorld.fr
- PCworld.fr
- Poker Square – single-player card game
- PartyHandbook – UK nightclub event listing guide
Open Source Projects
- Appcelerator – Entourage UI
- b2evolution – Multi-blog & Advanced Blogging Software
Tutorials
- swartzfager.org: Using jQuery UI Sortables To Move Items From One List To Another
- adamchristian.com: Skinning Windmill with JQuery UI Themes
Jobs
- ScriptLance: Project: Tax and Shipping Web Service
How about a sprint?
We did a jQuery UI sprint a year ago last week, and it rocked. So we’re thinking of doing another. Would you be interested? If so, how would you like to contribute? Tests, code fixes, documentation, demos, tutorials, answering questions, anything? Let us know.
That’s it for this week. Stay tuned for tonight’s installment of ‘This Week in jQuery’ over on the jQuery blog.
The legacy preview release, jQuery UI 1.6rc2.6, is available for download and testing.
Download
You can download the development bundle here:
http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery.ui-1.6rc2.6.zip
or check out from svn or reference individual files here:
http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.6rc2.6/
Testing
If you find any issues, please file in the bug tracker
http://dev.jqueryui.com/newticket (note: requires registration)
and be sure to set the ‘version’ to ‘1.6rc2.6′ and the ‘milestone’ to ‘1.6′.
About the 1.6 release
As announced previously, this release is in preparation for a final 1.6 release based on 1.6rc2 that will provide an updated version for those currently using jQuery 1.2.6 and jQuery UI 1.5.3, and not yet able to update to jQuery 1.3 and jQuery UI 1.7. Please note, as soon as the 1.6 release is finalized, it will be frozen as legacy and no longer actively developed. Thanks.