The jQuery UI team announced today the release of alpha versions of
jQuery UI 1.5a and jQuery Enchant 1.0a! The projects aim to address the
need for a strong set of UI controls and effects to complement the
jQuery JavaScript library.
From Paul Bakaus, UI team lead:
Hi everybody!
I'm very happy to announce the first alpha release of both jQuery UI 1.5
and jQuery Enchant 1.0 to all the adventurous guys out there. This is a
huge update - the whole API has been standardized and updated, and many
of the plugins have been completely rewritten. jQuery Enchant is the
missing part of UI: A library completely devoted to rich effects. It
already features all effects you know from scriptaculous/interface, as
well as many more great additions: color animations, class animations
and highly configurable effects.
Be advised that while it's extremly hot (and fresh), this release is
absolutely not stable - there is no documentation at this point, so you
have to digg into the demos and code yourself if you want to check it
out. It's really only a testing and try-out release. This will allow us
to be able to get it out to you guys, then spend the next days on
further bugfixing and improvements. It would be great if you could test
and report whatever you think should work from looking at the code - it
really helps us to get the beta ready, which is scheduled for February
10th. The beta will come out with official release notes and an updated
documentation.
Since it's alpha, it's not only stablity missing - the following stuff
is not included:
- Draggable option wrapHelper
- Almost everything of slider
I will soon answer to this thread with uploaded demos that you can try
out right away. Thanks a lot so far for everyone who helped in making
this happen (more on that in the beta release!) Anyway, try it out for
yourself!
The code and demos for the two libraries can be found here:
jQuery UI:
http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery.ui-1.5a.zip
http://ui.jquery.com/1.5a/demos/
jQuery Enchant:
http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery.enchant-1.0a.zip
http://ui.jquery.com/enchant/1.0a/demos/
It’s important to note that both jQuery UI and Enchant require the newly
jQuery v1.2.3 which was released last night.
http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.2.3.js
http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.2.3.min.js
http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.2.3.pack.js
