We surpassed the millionth download of jQuery UI using our recent DownloadBuilder and ThemeRoller rewrite back on February. As of today, we have served 1,730,000 downloads and counting. Read on for some insights into what we’ve built, and the trends we’ve noticed so far. The former server-side code was written in PHP.  It’s been rewritten … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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: … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Another week in the The Year of jQuery UI. Here’s what happened: Releases 1.7.1 The first maintenance release for 1.7 came this week: jQuery UI 1.7.1. Here’s the changelog. We’ve made some much-needed updates to the download builder. We’re hopeful this will fix the problems some people were having with certain browser and OS configurations. … Continue reading →

This is the first in a weekly series on what’s happening with jQuery UI. It will be a digest of all activity in the community and on the team. Releases jQuery UI 1.7 Our latest release came out a week ago today. Here’s some coverage I saw over the past week: Filament Group: http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/jquery_ui_17_now_released/ Raymond … Continue reading →