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.