Posted by starbow on July 5, 2007 at 6:19pm
Has anyone had a chance to check out the new JQuery UI? I think it is what people have been referring to as Interface2.
Update: It looks like Dimitri has created the UI project to deal with jQuery UI in D6. I have just created the jQuery UI Backport project to allow the library to be used in D5 without breaking anything.
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Snappity Demo uses jQuery UI
John Resig just released a little demo via the #jQuery IRC that uses the new ui.js -- http://dev.jquery.com/~john/plugins/snappity/
I asked him when jQuery UI was going to be ready for an official release, and he didn't know. He did say, "it's still very much a work in progress. esp. since we want full documentation for it too"
The jQuery roadmap is shooting for a 1.1.4 release by the end of July and a 1.2 release at the end of August. I'll try to e-mail the jQuery UI author to see if he has any other updates on it in relation to these target dates.
For those that haven't heard of it before this post, the jQuery 1.1.3 announcement made the first mention of jQuery UI:
There are also a number of comments in the post asking about it.
On my radar
Yeah, I've got this on my radar. It may obsolete the jquery_interface.module. I'm actually kinda hopeful that it will. Smaller. Faster. Better. Good stuff!
The project page for this plugin is kind of hard to find. It looks like its here though: http://jquery.com/plugins/project/ui
It looks like they're using Drupal for the new JQuery plugins site btw...
-= Jeff Robbins | Lullabot | Drupalize.me =-
Wow
They're not just using Drupal, they are using project.module, with cvs versioned releases and everything. Gutsy!
No, it's not CVS packaging.
No, it's not CVS packaging. It's normal file uploads for each release. :)
I think we're all hoping for
I think we're all hoping for this.
Interface has too many problems and it's a bloated whore.
:)
YAY SECRET PROJECTS!
jQuery UI shooting for mid-August release
I heard back from the jQuery UI developer Paul Bakaus about when to expect a final version.
He said:
His e-mail is listed online, and so feel free to contact him at paul.bakaus@googlemail.com if you have any more questions about it.
so who's going to take this on?
http://ui.jquery.com/
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Ideas?
The JQuery UI is official at http://ui.jquery.com/ and it includes a calendar date-picker. I have the code already written to incorporate the jquery calendar into the Date module, just need to know how we want to handle storage of the js file. I see a project at http://drupal.org/project/ui. Would that be the place?
Any help appreciated!
Is there a documented JQ 1.2 solution for Dr 5 ?
Anyone have a definitive answer for this? I have seen numerous postings on things like:
a 1.2 patch (104k patch which seem to simply copy over uncompressed version of 1.2 and patches some other core js file) - but as with most patches no spec on what the starting point is and not sure they really have computability right???
the backport thing mentioned here - but again no spec on what is required with it??? do you need jq_update (1.1.3) or simply core jquery (1.0.4??). Plus it is a 260k JS file.. wow.. does it really need to be this big to get 1.2??
With all the different patches (none of with info on what they are patching) and different update modules - is it just me or is Dr5 and jq 1.2 a huge mess at the moment?
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I think it's a huge mess
I think it's a huge mess right now. As I recall, jq 1.2 messes up collapsible fields in d5. I know it's working in d6. Don't know if there are plans to make it work in d5.
You could probably make it happen on an individual basis by swapping out misc/jquery.js and tracking down the patches that went into making d6. If anyone feels adventurous, maybe they could document it here.
I recently created the Magnify module, which required the .offset function of jquery 1.2. I just copied the relevant function and conditionally included it (so it won't overwrite anything if someone has 1.2 already installed). That's probably as far as I'll go with trying to support 1.2 in d5, as I imagine things should move fairly quickly into d6 in the next few months in Drupal land.
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Check out jQuery UI Backport
The jQuery UI Backport module by Tao at http://drupal.org/project/jquib does not require the jQuery_update module.
In the jquib.js file, there is this note:
jQuery UI Backport - Unified jQuery 1.2.1 and jQueryUI 1.0, namespaced for inclusion in Drupal 5 figured out with help from Scott Gonzo
http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui/browse_thread/thread/a484731cae...
http://dev.jquery.com/attachment/ticket/1774/1774.diff
It also says on the project release page:
"Provides a single function, jquery_ui_backport_add(), which will make the javascript variable $ui available to your page. $ui has all of the jQuery UI functions available to it. $ will be unaffected."