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

• jQuery UI Multiselect

See also

As always, be sure to follow This Week in jQuery on the jQuery blog.

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.

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

• jQueryDotNet
• jQUI-DNN: jQuery UI DotNetNuke integration

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.

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. If you still have any issues, be sure to file them in the bug tracker (note: requires registration).

1.6rc2.5

The latest legacy preview release has been out just over a week and has only two issues (so far) filed against it. Things are looking good for being able to release 1.6 final on March 25th.

SXSWi

jQuery UI ThemeRoller was a finalist for an SXSWi Web Award this week. Here’s the coverage from Wired: http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/03/sxsw-2009-web-a.html. Congrats and thanks to Filament Group and everyone else on the jQuery UI Team that has contributed to ThemeRoller.

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

• Ampparit.com – Finnish news aggregator
• CablesforLess.com – Saving the World… from high priced cables
• ChessBomb.com – Broadcasts chess events online with realtime computer analysis
• cloudkick – the easiest way to manage the cloud
• HelloMovies – Find thousands of movies you can watch instantly
• Jiglu – intelligent tagging and communities
• ManagingMeals.com – Discover recipes, plan meals, create grocery lists.
• USCarPartsDirect.com – US Car Parts and Domestic Accessories
• Welcome to Redeemer – A young church dedicated to serving the city of Lincoln, Nebraska by living out the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Open Source Projects

• Open Web Analytics – Open Source Web Analytics Framework
• Piwik – Open Source Web Analytics

ThemeRoller-ready Plugins

• trirand.com: The fabulous jqGrid plugin added support this week for jQuery UI Theming, making it ThemeRoller-ready. This is not yet in a final release, but can be seen in the 3.5 alpha. Great job, Tony.

Remember, ThemeRoller and the jQuery UI CSS Framework aren’t just for jQuery UI plugins. So if you have a plugin, what about making it ThemeRoller-ready? Or if you have a favorite plugin that you’d like to see ThemeRoller-ready, send a donation (or at the very least a thank you note) to the plugin maintainer, and encourage them to add support.

Tutorials

• Marcofolio.net: Creating a polaroid photo viewer with CSS3 and jQuery
• EricDotNet: jQuery UI Tabs and Asp.net MVC

Feedback

We’d love to hear how we’re doing, and how we can do better. Leave a comment, talk to us on twitter, post something on the mailing list. Here are some links: Let’s chat. Thanks.

That’s it for this week. Stay tuned for tonight’s installment of ‘This Week in jQuery’ over on the jQuery blog.

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 Camden: http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/3/6/jQuery-UI-17-Released
• Ajaxian: http://ajaxian.com/archives/jquery-ui-17-released-new-css-framework-dramatic-updates-to-controls
• DZone: http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/jquery_ui_17.html
• Digg: http://digg.com/programming/jQuery_UI_v1_7_Major_release_of_effects_and_UI_controls
• NETTUTS: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/what-you-must-know-about-jquery-ui-17/
• InsideRIA: http://www.insideria.com/2009/03/jquery-ftw-for-march-6-2009.html
• InsideRIA: http://www.insideria.com/2009/03/the-weekly-ria-roundup-for-mar.html

Great feedback in a lot of comments on those posts. We’re listening. I was happy to see some positive feedback on the fact that themes can now be downloaded in a bundle. Here’s one example:

Hoy es mi día. Me siento como si fuera mi cumpleaños y me estuvieran regalando el juego que llevo esperando tres meses.

My Spanish is only so-so. Here’s the best google’s language tools could do:

Today is my day. I feel like it was my birthday and I were giving away the game I been waiting three months.

http://www.nonomartinez.com/2009/03/04/jquery-ui-themes-17-themes-stable/

jQuery UI 1.6rc2.5

This release has only been out two days, but so far there have been zero comments on it, on the blog post announcement and on the mailing lists. Also, no bugs last I checked. Has anyone tried it out? The plan is to release the final on March 25. If no error reports come in, 1.6rc2.5 will become 1.6 final. If that matters to you, please help kick it around and be sure to file a bug report with the version specified as ‘1.6rc2.5′. Thanks.

Q&A with jQuery UI Creator Paul Bakaus

Steve Reynolds has posted an interview with Paul Bakaus. Here’s the intro:

With the release of jQuery UI 1.7 just out the door, Paul Bakaus – creator of jQuery UI has kindly agreed to answer some questions about that launch, his life as a programmer, his involvement with the jQuery UI project and the world as he knows it.

Read the rest over on Steve’s blog: http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/03/questions-with-jquery-ui-creator-paul-bakaus/

Sites Using jQuery UI

We maintain a list of Sites Using jQuery UI on the jQuery documentation site, docs.jquery.com (still the home of the jQuery UI documentation wiki). 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

• ESPN
• Capcom Europe
• LiveSlices
• DotNetShoutout

Open Source Projects

• MozMill – Functional UI testing for Mozilla Applications
• Nitrogen – Web Framework for Erlang
• osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 Alpha 5
• Rhizosphere – Navigate through your data with a web based javascript UI that resembles a desktop
• TimeCloud – Visualization widget, displaying animated tagclouds over time

Software planning to use jQuery UI

• NerdDinner: Scott Hanselman says, “I’ll be maintaining the application with all these folks, and you’re welcome to join in! I’m hoping to add features like RSS, iCal, Blog Badges, jQuery UI controls, OpenID and more in the coming weeks. Wanna help?”
  http://www.hanselman.com/blog/FreeASPNETMVCEBookNerdDinnercomWalkthrough.aspx
• Fluid Grid System: Home page states, “In the near future you will see […] integration with JQuery and JQuery UI for use in rich internet applications (RIA’s)”
  http://fluid.newgoldleaf.com/

Jobs

This is the first job listing I’ve seen that lists experience with jQuery UI (not just jQuery) as a requirement:

I am looking for a designer experienced with jQuery UI and CSS to help us design a nice reusable template that is sports related.

http://www.102dataentryjob.com/online-dataentry/designer-for-sports-template/

Books

jQuery UI 1.6: The User Interface Library for jQuery by Dan Wellman (amazon.com)

• book review: by Marcos Placona http://www.placona.co.uk/blog/post.cfm/jquery-ui-1-6-book-review
• book review: by Mike Jolley http://blue-anvil.com/archives/book-review-jquery-ui-16
• book giveaway: by Brenelz Web Solutions http://www.brenelz.com/blog/2009/03/06/2-web-development-ebooks-to-give-away/

Tutorials

• CSS TRICKS: jQuery UI Tabs with Next/Previous
• DeviantPoint: Using the jQuery UI Dialog widget for confirmation windows
• Programmer Ramblings: ASP.NET Session Timeout Control + jQuery Dialog

Discussion

A lot of people are bummed that jQuery UI’s nice rounded corners don’t work in Internet Explorer. Some discussion of this continued this week:

I’m getting increasingly enthusiastic all the time with the jQuery UI framework – especially its well-structured and versatile CSS component. My emerging problem, however, seems to be one of designer acceptance.

JQuery UI uses the -moz-border-radius CSS property to render its rounded corners in dialogs, controls and icons. This is a CSS3 standard and is supported in all upcoming browser versions… except Internet Explorer.

http://mytechworld.officeacuity.com/?p=313

Design & Development

We’ve had a lot of great activity this week on the jQuery UI Development & Planning wiki as well as on the jQuery UI Dev Google Group. We can always use more help, and we invite you to join us. Request access to the wiki, review a page, leave a comment. Let us know if you have a plugin you think might be a good fit for jQuery UI.

See Also

If you liked This Week in jQuery UI, you’ll love This Week in jQuery.