As promised last week the jQuery team has released jQuery UI 1.0. jQuery UI is a fully themed interaction and widget library built on top of jQuery. UI requires the use of jQuery 1.2.1 or greater. From the documentation 1.0 includes:
Mouse Interaction
- Draggables - Makes items draggable by the mouse
- Droppables - Makes drop targets for draggables
- Sortables - Makes a list of items mouse sortable
- Selectables - Makes a list of items mouse and keyboard selectable
- Resizables - Makes an element resizable
User Interface Extensions
- Accordion - A collapsible content pane
- Calendar - A dynamic date picker
- Dialog - Modal floating windows and confirmation dialogs
- Slider - A sliding input element
- Table - A sortable table
- Tabs - A tabbed content pane
Effects
jQuery lead John Resig adds the following on the jQuery blog:
jQuery UI signals the start of a whole new branch of the jQuery project which will focus on developing high-quality, reusable, components that you’ll be able to drop in your applications. Frequently, these components are coming directly to you from traditional jQuery plugins, but with strict coding, documentation, themeing, and demo standards. We hope you’ll enjoy this new level of quality as much as we do...Please be kind, there’s still going to be a mess of rough edges, as is to be expected with a brand new project. Please submit bugs to the bug tracker under the “UI” component and bring them up for discussion on the jQuery UI Mailing List. We appreciate your help...