Releases

jQuery UI 1.8.13

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The thirteenth maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8 is out. This update brings bug fixes for Autocomplete, Button, Datepicker, Draggable, Resizable and Slider. For the full list of changes, see the changelog. You can download it here:

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Changelog

See the 1.8.13 Upgrade Guide for a list of changes that may affect you when upgrading from 1.8.12. For full details on what’s included in this release see the 1.8.13 Changelog.

Thanks

Thanks to all who helped with this release, specifically: Adam Baratz, adamlogic, aembler, Andrew Powell, andri, bartaz, Carson McDonald, cdeszaq, cstdenis, daepark, dahlb, dalelarsen, dallaway, damion, danheberden, dmfontz, Ed4, eddiemonge, Edward Faulkner, Eike Send, EricKerby, eric_b, freerange, Garrison Locke, geoffp, glenvan, gnarf, Grismar, hammond13, i8beef, jerry, joern.zaefferer, jorrit, juergen.furrer, Kato Kazuyoshi, kborchers, KrishnarajD, larsomat, lindner@visionet.de, Lockhead, Lopo, m4olivei, machineghost, Mark Johnson, markchagers, MatrixFrog, mike3050, mikeqw, mitjakuscer, mryall, oribani, paul, pitoj, pospi, postb99, pwaring, pwoldberg, rb-cohen, Richard Worth, Scott González, spudly, superboer12, theycallmeswift, ThiefMaster, ThrushAAX, TitAn, utkarsh, VIRGOFX, vitch, whittet, wuzz.

Comments

Note: please do NOT use the comments section of this blog post for reporting bugs. Bug reports should be filed in the jQuery UI Bug Tracker and support questions should be posted on the jQuery Forum.

If you have feedback on us doing our thirteenth maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8, feel free to leave a comment below. Thank you.

Releases

jQuery UI 1.8.12

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The twelfth maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8 is out. This update brings bug fixes for Autocomplete, Datepicker, Dialog, Progressbar, Resizable, Slider and Tabs. For the full list of changes, see the changelog. You can download it here:

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Git (contains source files, with @VERSION not yet replaced with 1.8.12, base theme only)

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Changelog

See the 1.8.12 Upgrade Guide for a list of changes that may affect you when upgrading from 1.8.11. For full details on what’s included in this release see the 1.8.12 Changelog.

Thanks

Thanks to all who helped with this release, specifically: aperitero, Bluff, chris.rohr, danwellman, fofanafi, Giovanni Giacobbi, jimconte, joern.zaefferer, kabel, Kyle Florence, Ralph Whitbeck, Richard Worth, Scott González, toebens, tyron.

Comments

Note: please do NOT use the comments section of this blog post for reporting bugs. Bug reports should be filed in the jQuery UI Bug Tracker and support questions should be posted on the jQuery Forum.

If you have feedback on us doing our twelfth maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8, feel free to leave a comment below. Thank you.

Releases

jQuery UI 1.8.11

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The eleventh maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8 is out. This update brings bug fixes for Accordion, Autocomplete, Button, Datepicker, Draggable, Droppable, Mouse, Sortable and Effects. For the full list of changes, see the changelog. You can download it here:

Download

File Downloads

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Git (contains source files, with @VERSION not yet replaced with 1.8.11, base theme only)

Google Ajax Libraries API (CDN)

Microsoft Ajax CDN (CDN)

Custom Download Builder

Changelog

See the 1.8.11 Upgrade Guide for a list of changes that may affect you when upgrading from 1.8.10. For full details on what’s included in this release see the 1.8.11 Changelog.

Thanks

Thanks to all who helped with this release, specifically: Adam Parod, ajpiano, akantro, alkaaran, awgy, daepark, David.Sullivan, ddstreet, Douglas Neiner, dziastinux, eleotlecram, elijahmanor, ghusse, gnarf, Guillaume Gautreau, Marcel Toele, Matt Hoskins, michaelmwu, mosevo, mystic414, nathansobo, nefiga@hotmail.com, Niloct, Richard Worth, saidovab, Scott González, Skaffen, waschmittel.

Comments

Note: please do NOT use the comments section of this blog post for reporting bugs. Bug reports should be filed in the jQuery UI Bug Tracker and support questions should be posted on the jQuery Forum.

If you have feedback on us doing our eleventh maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8, feel free to leave a comment below. Thank you.

Design | Development

API Redesigns: The Past, Present and Future

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Back in November, we announced the first of many API redesigns. In that post, we briefly stated our overall goals:

jQuery UI is undergoing an API redesign which will slim down the size of the API in order to provide a more stable codebase that is easier to learn and use. We’ll be posting the proposed changes over the next few weeks in order to gather feedback from the community. Our goal is to support the old (current) and new (proposed) APIs simultaneously in 1.9 and then remove support for the old APIs in 2.0.

Now it’s three months later and two things are clear: 1) it’s taking more than a few weeks to post all of the proposed changes; and 2) we didn’t give enough information about the planned changes and the reasoning behind them.

The Past

When jQuery UI was first created, it was a combination of new and existing plugins. Pulling in existing, popular plugins was beneficial for everyone involved: jQuery UI was released earlier and with more plugins, the original authors’ hard work was publicly recognized and supported by the jQuery Project and the existing user base gained official support for the code they were using. Unfortunately, there was a downside to this approach. Because the existing plugins were written by different authors with different design principles and different coding styles, there wasn’t much consistency within jQuery UI. Between the 1.0 and 1.8 releases there were a few attempts to standardize various parts of the API, but there was never a coordinated effort large enough to make the necessary changes.

In addition to the inconsistencies between plugins, other problems started to appear over the past three and a half years. As users requested more and more features, the number of options, methods and events continued to grow. Over time, this led to what we have today, where something as simple as a draggable element has almost 30 options. On one hand, it’s impressive that so many various use cases can be handled, often with the use of just one or two of these options. On the other hand, finding the right one or two options to use can be a daunting task, especially for new users.

The Present

Recognizing the existing problems, we approached the 1.8 release differently. We defined a new process for building plugins that focuses on simplified APIs that are easy to extend. With the success of the 1.8 release, especially the simplicity and flexibility of the Autocomplete widget, we were convinced that our new process was working. Having a new process and new standards, we decided to go back and redesign all of our existing plugins with the same design process. In October, the jQuery UI team got together in Boston to do a first pass at redesigning all of the existing plugins. A few weeks later we started posting the proposed changes to gather feedback from the community. We’re still working through some of the details for specific plugins.

Our goal is to have a completely refreshed project with the 2.0 release. We will have a much simpler API, better stability, full documentation and a full test suite for every plugin. However, getting there will require a lot of backward-incompatible changes. We’re aware of how painful that can be and we are doing everything we can to reduce the pain of upgrading. Specifically, we’re doing the following while implementing the new API:

  • Ensuring we have a full test suite for the 2.0 API
  • Creating a separate test suite for the 1.8 API
  • Re-implementing any deprecated functionality on top of the new functionality
  • Defaulting to the 1.8 API in cases where the old and new APIs cannot live side-by-side

This approach has several benefits, with one of the most important being that upgrading to 1.9 should not break any existing pages. In fact, the 1.9 release will have better support of the 1.8 API than any 1.8.x release. As plugins are refactored for 1.9, many bugs present in 1.8.x will be fixed and some of the fixes will not be easily ported to the 1.8 branch. Because the support for the 1.8 API in the 1.9 release is actually new code built on top of the 2.0 API, it benefits from these bug fixes. The addition of a full test suite for the 1.8 API ensures that these bugs are actually fixed in both APIs.

Defaulting to 100% support of the 1.8 API is great for upgrading to 1.9, but it doesn’t provide a way to determine if you’re ready to upgrade to only using the 2.0 API. In order to deal with this, we’ve added a new flag, jQuery.uiBackCompat. If you load jQuery, then set jQuery.uiBackCompat = false, then load jQuery UI, none of the 1.8 API will be loaded. This will result in only having the 2.0 API available and will allow you to test your pages for compatibility with the new API and provide confidence that you will be ready to upgrade to 2.0 when it is released.

The Future

When jQuery UI 2.0 is released, we will no longer support the 1.8 API. However, the 1.8 API compatibility layer from 1.9 should continue to work; it will just not be included in the 2.0 release and will no longer be officially supported. All new plugins will go through the new design process so large API changes like this should not occur again. Once the existing plugins have been updated to our new standards, we should be able to move the project forward much faster than we’ve previously been able to.

It’s worth mentioning that only widgets, utilities and effects are being refactored in 1.9. All interactions are going to be rewritten for 2.0 so they will be undergoing a different implementation process. As a user of jQuery UI, there shouldn’t be much perceived difference between the widget refactors and the interaction rewrites other than the release date.

We know that no one looks forward to refactoring existing code to work with API changes, and we’re working to make sure the transition process will be clear and simple.  We hope that you, our users, understand that we need take this opportunity to refine jQuery UI to make it more robust, extensible, and maintainable in the long term.

Design | Development

Tabs API Redesign

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Continuing with the API redesign, we have some changes planned for the Tabs widget. We know that API changes like this are not without cost to our users, so we’d like to make it clear that except where specifically noted, jQuery UI Tabs in 1.9 will support the 1.8 API as well, and the deprecated APIs will not be removed until jQuery UI 2.0.

API Redesign

Remove rotation.
The rotate method will be removed as it is not very common and has always been implemented as a built-in extension anyway. This will actually be removed, not just deprecated in 1.9 since it has always existed as an extension. Christopher McCulloh has an enhanced rotation extension based on the original code.

Overhaul ajax tabs
The ajaxOptions and cache options are being removed in favor of a new event: beforeload. The beforeload event will receive a jqXHR object and the settings object that will be passed to jQuery.ajax(). ajaxOptions is replaced by modifying the settings passed to beforeload and caching can be implemented by calling event.preventDefault() to prevent the ajax call and jump straight to showing the tab. We will also be keeping the href attribute unmodified and storing the panel id in the aria-controls attribute. The aria-controls attribute will be set for all tabs, regardless of whether they are local or remote. This will remove the need for the url method, which is also being removed. It will be possible to pre-define a value in the aria-controls value for remote tabs, removing the need to specify the location in the title attribute (which is also being removed). The abort method will be removed since the jqXHR object will be directly accessible and you can therefore abort the ajax call directly. Another benefit of the beforeload event is when paired with the existing load event, you can create custom loading functionality; as such we are removing the spinner option.

Selected vs. active
In order to improve consistency within the jQuery UI suite, select/selected will be renamed to activate/active across the board. What this means for tabs is that the selected option will be renamed to active, the select event will be renamed to beforeactivate, and the show event will be renamed to activate. The beforeactivate and activate options will include references to the tab and content panel for the old and new tabs, similar to accordion. In addition, the select method will be removed in favor of the setting the active option. Lastly, the deselectable option will be removed in 1.9 since it was deprecated in 1.8.

Remove templating
All options related to templating are being removed. The templating in tabs is a one-off implementation and creates an inconsistency with the rest of jQuery UI. This change includes the removal of the idPrefix, tabTemplate, and panelTemplate options.

Adding and removing tabs
The add and remove methods will be removed in favor of a new refresh method. This is consistent with how new plugins are updated after initialization. Removing these methods also means that the add and remove events are being removed.

Enabling and Disabling tabs
Tabs will properly support disabling individual tabs or the entire tab set. A boolean can be used to disable the entire set or an array of indices can be provided to disable individual tabs. In addition, the enable and disable events will be removed for consistency with other widgets.

Remove length method
The length method will be removed as it doesn’t serve much purpose and can easily be calculated by counting the number of list items.

Remove cookie option
The cookie option will be removed as cookie support is not core to the plugin. Cross-page state management should be easy, but not be built-in.

Design changes still in flux
There are a few things that we still haven’t fully worked out. We plan on replacing the fx option with show and hide options for consistency with other widgets, but are still working through an open issue of how to support effects across plugins. We would also like to remove the load method but we need to verify that it can be built as an extension. Until we get into the new implementation, we won’t know if this is possible; if it’s not, the load method will remain in the plugin.

Feedback

We’d love to hear your feedback on these changes. We want to make sure we address any issues the community may have before we finalize and implement these changes. If you have any feedback, please post it on the related forum post. Thanks.

Releases

jQuery UI 1.8.10

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The tenth maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8 is out. This update brings bug fixes for Accordion, Button, Datepicker, Dialog, and Resizable. For the full list of changes, see the changelog. You can download it here:

Download

File Downloads

Svn (contains final files as they are in the zip, with @VERSION replaced with 1.8.10, all themes)

Git (contains source files, with @VERSION not yet replaced with 1.8.10, base theme only)

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Custom Download Builder

Changelog

See the 1.8.10 Upgrade Guide for a list of changes that may affect you when upgrading from 1.8.9. For full details on what’s included in this release see the 1.8.10 Changelog.

Thanks

Thanks to all who helped with this release, specifically: adam j. sontag, Alex Dovenmuehle, alfatek, cmcnulty, Dan Heberden, echos, George Marshall, istvan.m.antal, jamey, jomyjohn, loganbailey, Martin Solli, Richard D. Worth, Scott González, severin, Squ36, Tobias Brunner, Xavi.

Comments

Note: please do NOT use the comments section of this blog post for reporting bugs. Bug reports should be filed in the jQuery UI Bug Tracker and support questions should be posted on the jQuery Forum.

If you have feedback on us doing our tenth maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8, feel free to leave a comment below. Thank you.

Releases

jQuery UI 1.9 Milestone 4 – Accordion Redesign

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The fourth milestone release for jQuery UI 1.9 is out, featuring the updated Accordion widget. This release also includes updates and bug fixes to existing and new widgets that will not make it into a 1.8.x release.

What’s a Milestone Release?

A milestone release makes it easier to try out the latest development code of jQuery UI without necessarily having to check out code from GitHub.

With a milestone release you can try out new widgets that are pretty far along (though not yet final) and provide feedback based on released code with a specific version number.

Note: the API is subject to change as the code is still under active development.

Accordion

The Accordion API has been redesigned for simplicity, extensibility and consistency with other widgets in jQuery UI. We’d love to get feedback on any compatibility issues you may have with existing code. Everything supported in 1.8 should work out-of-the-box in 1.9; if something breaks, we will work to fix it before the final release.

jQuery.uiBackCompat

As mentioned above, 1.9 will support the 1.8 API, as well as the redesigned API. However, this introduces two problems. First, some of the APIs don’t overlap cleanly. For example, in 1.8 you can collapse an accordion by setting the active option to false or -1; but with the API updates, you can set the active option to a negative number in order to activate a panel starting from the last panel instead of the first (similar to .eq()). Second, while both APIs are supported, it’s hard to test whether you’ve successfully updated all of your code for compatibility with the 2.0 release which will not support the 1.8 API. In order to deal with these issues, we’ve introduced a flag, jQuery.uiBackCompat, which can be used to prevent the backward compatibility layer from executing. This flag must be set after jQuery is loaded, but before jQuery UI is loaded. Toggling the flag after jQuery UI has been loaded will have no effect.

Download

You can download the jQuery UI 1.9 Milestone 4 – Accordion Redesign release as a zip file or via git:

File Downloads

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How to Provide Feedback

wiki page

To help with the testing of the Accordion redesign, visit the Accordion page on our Development & Planning wiki.

forum

If the comments section on the wiki page doesn’t provide enough room for your feedback, post to the Developing jQuery UI Forum and tag the post:

How to Contribute Code

If you have code changes for the Accordion, fork jQuery UI on GitHub and submit a pull request.

If you’re new to git or GitHub, see our guide: How to submit a fix to jQuery UI – The Easy Way.

Comments

Note: please do NOT use the comments section of this blog post for feedback on the Accordion widget. This discussion should occur on the wiki page and the forum (see How to Provide Feedback, above).

If you have feedback on us doing our fourth milestone release, feel free to leave a comment below. Thank you.

Development

Unleash The Grid

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The jQuery UI Team is proud to announce that we are building a rich, fast grid widget that will enhance an HTML table with data linking, sorting, paging, filtering, row selection, and inline editing. As part of this process, we’ll be building the features of the grid as standalone widgets and revisiting existing jQuery UI components. At the end of this process, not only will we have a grid, but also a better-tested, more feature-complete user interface library.

Current Progress

We are nearing completion of development on Stage 1 of the project, which encompasses the creation of a generic data model, data type parsing, and markup. This stage will culminate in a “zero feature grid,” an enhanced HTML table that supports the jQuery UI CSS Framework and serves as a base for other grid features. See the roadmap for details on work planned for future stages.

Development Approach

There are already a number of high quality jQuery grid plugins. We recognize they each have an impressive set of features, capabilities, and a level of use by members of the jQuery community. We are studying and applying practices and techniques from today’s most popular grid and data table plugins, including current favorites, SlickGrid, jqGrid, DataTables and a few that have not been updated in a while, like Tablesorter, Flexigrid, and Ingrid. We invite all authors and users of these and any other grid plugins to get involved in the design of the jQuery UI Grid.

Not Invented Here?

As you may imagine, we’re pretty big fans of the jQuery UI API. We believe that having a consistent interface to complex plugins is a big win for users. Sometimes in the past, we’ve adapted already-complete plugins. Unfortunately, this approach can lead to headaches related to legacy bugs, inconsistencies with the rest of our API, and lack of familiarity with the original design decisions. By building from the ground up, we can ensure that each line of code has been vetted and that any grid we call “jQuery UI’s” conforms to our standards.

More Than Just A Grid

We’re not just developing a grid, but rather designing and building modular and extensible components, like sorting, paging, filtering, and in-place editing, that can be combined into a grid. We’re confident that jQuery UI users will find compelling and creative uses for the new suite of tools that are being built to support the grid.

Refactoring Interactions

While jQuery UI’s mouse interaction plugins work well enough in many cases, we are well aware that they have lingering shortcomings – including their ability to work properly on tables. As part of the Grid development, we’ll be giving the interaction plugins a long-awaited refactoring to simplify their APIs, address edge cases, and generally ensure their suitability for a wider variety of contexts.

Join Us!

Do you want to help design and build the jQuery UI Grid? Share your feedback? Join us on the grid planning wiki page. You can stay up-to-date with development and test the latest iterations on jQuery UI’s grid branch.

Sponsors

This work is made possible by the generous donations by individuals as well as corporate sponsors. These sponsors have donated financial and development resources to ensure the grid work can go forward over the next 5-6 months.

In particular, the jQuery project would like to thank the following sponsors (as of today) of the jQuery UI Grid project:

Double Platinum Grid Sponsors

  • Microsoft – The Microsoft Web Platform and Tools team builds many technologies for developing web sites including ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, IIS, Visual Web Developer and Web Matrix.
  • Adobe – Adobe Systems Incorporated offers business, creative, and mobile software solutions that revolutionize how the world engages with ideas and information.

    • Platinum Grid Sponsor

  • Wijmo – Wijmo is a complete kit of over 30 jQuery UI Widgets. It is a mixture of jQuery, CSS3, SVG, and HTML5 that, when combined, become an unstoppable force on the web.

If you or your company is interested in being a sponsor of the jQuery UI Grid, please get in touch.

Releases

jQuery UI 1.8.9

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The ninth maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8 is out. This update brings bug fixes for Accordion, Datepicker, Draggable, Sortable and Tabs. For the full list of changes, see the changelog. You can download it here:

Download

File Downloads

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Git (contains pre-build files, with @VERSION not yet replaced with 1.8.9, base theme only)

Google Ajax Libraries API (CDN)

Microsoft Ajax CDN (CDN)

Custom Download Builder

New Features

Datepicker

The datepicker widget now has support for the Algerian Arabic, Australian and New Zealand localizations.

Changelog

See the 1.8.9 Upgrade Guide for a list of changes that may affect you when upgrading from 1.8.8. For full details on what’s included in this release see the 1.8.9 Changelog.

Thanks

Thanks to all who helped with this release, specifically: Campbell, cherif, Christoph Burgdorf, Ivan Peters, jorrit, marcos.sousa, Scott González, tobias.istvan.

Comments

Note: please do NOT use the comments section of this blog post for reporting bugs. Bug reports should be filed in the jQuery UI Bug Tracker and support questions should be posted on the jQuery Forum.

If you have feedback on us doing our ninth maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8, feel free to leave a comment below. Thank you.

Releases

jQuery UI 1.8.8

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The eighth maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8 is out. This update brings bug fixes for Position, Accordion, Autocomplete, Button, Datepicker, Dialog, and Effects. For the full list of changes, see the changelog. You can download it here:

Download

File Downloads

Svn (contains final files as they are in the zip, with @VERSION replaced with 1.8.8, all themes)

Git (contains pre-build files, with @VERSION not yet replaced with 1.8.8, base theme only)

Google Ajax Libraries API (CDN)

Microsoft Ajax CDN (CDN)

Custom Download Builder

New Features

Datepicker

The datepicker widget now has support for the Malayalam localization.

Changelog

See the 1.8.8 Upgrade Guide for a list of changes that may affect you when upgrading from 1.8.7. For full details on what’s included in this release see the 1.8.8 Changelog.

Thanks

Thanks to all who helped with this release, specifically: aaronpeterson, Alex Dovenmuehle, calvin, chyi1235, Corkup, danlash, draenor, hypnotoad, ji1337, Kevin Dalman, m4olivei, Mario Visic, mjpowersjr, Saji, Scott González, Tony Ross, urkle.

Comments

Note: please do NOT use the comments section of this blog post for reporting bugs. Bug reports should be filed in the jQuery UI Bug Tracker and support questions should be posted on the jQuery Forum.

If you have feedback on us doing our eighth maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8, feel free to leave a comment below. Thank you.