Comments on: jQuery v1.2: Major new release, sneak peak at jQuery UI

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By: jmav

jmav — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:18:38 +0000

Finaly jQuery UI released (as promised).
http://ui.jquery.com/

By: jmav

jmav — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:26:21 +0000

As if a new major release wasnâ€™t enough to whet your appetite, on Sunday, September 16th, the new jQuery UI effects library will be released to the public. The library will include:

Today is September 17th, we would like to see and try this great product.
Please hurry up.

Best regards J

By: bryan

bryan — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:59:37 +0000

I am not a JS guy – in fact, for the longest time, javascript scared the hell out of me! When i came to the realization that I NEEDED to learn to use JavaScript if i wanted to continue developing for the ‘new’ Web 2.0, I tried a few solutions.

I started with Prototype\Scriptaculous and I had such a hard time understanding it and its structure. Coding it was a nightmare and I could not for the life of me get things to work. I ended up just copying code from other sites and using it as my own. While this worked, it didnt allow me flexibility because i couldn’t code my own effects and such.

I tried Mootools which I liked but again as a beginner, its structure confused me too much to really understand what i was doing or trying to do.

All along I had heard all this hype about jQuery which I never tried because its name alone sounds more cryptic that the alternatives. Boy was I wrong. Within 15 minutes, I knew what I was doing. The structure makes sense. The code is easily readable. The selectors it allows are incredible. I know CSS fairly well so selecting the right elements was simple!

For me, jQuery has saved me and brought new life to all of my projects and sites and I wouldnt have been able to be where I am now without jQuery.

By: Saidur Rahman

Saidur Rahman — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:01:59 +0000

THis is nice to hear UI of Jquery. Can anybody give some tutorial on it ?

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:41:43 +0000

MooTools is alright but it seems to be more on the visual side than the general side. JQuery is the best.

Oh and by the way they have coffee mugs, t-shirts and such now. I’m not involved in the project but they’ve saved me enough time and effort that a $20 purchase and a $50 donation was WELL worth it.

I’ll stop whoring, but we need to support these things that we love people.

By: rektide

rektide — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:22:00 +0000

i’ll be really interested to see how UI turn out. jquery is the only javascript helper i use, and UI is a very ambitious new direction for the project to pursue. i have the utmost confidence that we’re going to get a very clean very minimal solution for doing a lot of ui elements.

By: nfq

nfq — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:02 +0000

I don’t know which best way to comment, without being ragged. But with all the rave comments here, I wonder if any of you have tried MooTools yet. I am not saying JQuery is worse, I am just saying give MooTools a shot and you will be surprised at what you see. And I am not one of the developers or an evangelist but feel that anyone who is seriously considering using JQuery on any large projects, should have a look at many frameworks, especially MooTools

By: jdalton

jdalton — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:09:08 +0000

Hi John, I think its cool jQuery has custom events too (do they bubble up and work like real events like Prototypes?).
Also, my comment about class abilities was concerning Prototype (I know jQuery has none, and thats my point).

By the way don’t get me wrong, I am not a fan of jQuery but that doesn’t mean I don’t digg its progress. I am glad we have choices and things are much better than a few years ago.

By: Les

Les — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:49:05 +0000

I’d have to agree with jdalton – no reason to switch from Prototype. jQuery will be (in my mind) considered a mini-library until it provides true support for inheritance and superclass methods, which is now in part available in Prototype 1.6 RC0.

By: John Resig

John Resig — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:43:55 +0000

@jdalton: jQuery has always been able to do custom events. I helped give some advice to the Prototype team on how to do it, when they were looking at integrating it into their code base.

I’m confused about your comment concerning “class abilities” – none were added in 1.2, nor does jQuery have any.

If anything, Prototype is the one playing catch-up ;-)

By: jdalton

jdalton — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:25:18 +0000

I see Prototype as used for heavy lifting and jQuery for a little splash of something pretty on a blog or something trivial like that. I havenâ€™t considered it for application structure because I havenâ€™t seen any reason to switch. I love the built in helpers and easily read source of Prototype. The uncompressed code of jQuery looks as if it is already obsfucated. With Prototype 1.6 RC0 (and Scripty in hot pursuit) having new event and class abilities I feel that jQuery may be playing a bit of catch up. I know have strong opinions on both frameworks and I have always read that you canâ€™t compare the frameworks because they are meant for two different things. If Prototype is used for application development then what is jQuery used for?

Oh, and guys, give Trevor a break. :P

By: Frank Thuerigen

Frank Thuerigen — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:14:20 +0000

I see a contant drop in ratings, yesterday it was 1.48E+138 out of 5 now it is 1.19E+138 out of five… does that mean somebody has voted “4″?
:-)
I know you are busy, please send me the code so I can correct that.
mailto://frank.thuerigen@phpbuero,de

By: Frank Thuerigen

Frank Thuerigen — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:03:37 +0000

@Jon, Rey:
IÂ´d like to know more about it also – so far I have never come into a programming situation I felt tempted to switch from jQ to prototype… right now every day I feel more assured in my decision for jQ.
Grats!

By: Ronni Rasmussen

Ronni Rasmussen — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:35:42 +0000

Lets not make another appinion war about whats best or not like ms/mac ect. We got alot of great people out there making our life easier in many ways with there frameworks. And i dont think any of them is interrested in lame comments there offend users of other frameworks. As i see it prototype and jQuery got there own forces and weakness. I used to use prototype and its deffently great but today i stick with jQuery. But we should be happy that we got the choice to use any of these and praise there hard work.

By: Gilles

Gilles — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:00:59 +0000

As one of the UI developers, i can say that an upload widget is also ready, but it lacks docs.. :) It features stuff the other upload widgets don’t have..

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:51:02 +0000

@Jon: Your statement, “If I need some JavaScript heavy lifting, I stick to Prototype.”, really caught my attention. Can you elaborate on this a bit?

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:58:19 +0000

I make heavy use of Protaculous and don’t usually use jQuery. On the other hand, Protaculous can be like eating soup with a serving ladle – a bit much for the task. In cases where I need some visual goodness, jQuery is much quicker/easier. If I need some JavaScript heavy lifting, I stick to Prototype.

So while Trevor is good for most projects, I’ll still need Michael for others.

Great job, jQuery team!

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:34:13 +0000

The UI looks interesting. I’m not a big fan of the design polution that comes with it as the preview suggests though, hopefully jquery will stick with coding mostly. Having UI with more solid code out there is a great thing, it feels a lot more dependable then having all the user contributed plugins. I know those won’t disappear anytime soon but at least it’s not all about the plugins anymore. Nice job.