No offense to anyone involved with creating the default examples, but I think the default and especially the "alternate" UI DatePicker styles are awful. I realize they are meant to be a starting point for people to customize. In theory that sounds like a good idea, but in reality it's probably detrimental to DatePicker's success. Customizing the calendar [and doing it well] takes a fair amount of CSS/graphic design work & I doubt many jQuery users have the skills and/or the time.
For those who aren't familiar with them, Calendar for MooTools' three default styles are phenomenal (link below) - clean, professional & modern looking. Compare them to the DatePicker default styles & you'll see what I'm talking about. I'd love to see a calendar style of similar quality available for UI DatePicker. jQuery UI DatePicker: http://marcgrabanski.com/code/ui-datepicker/ (click the "Stylesheets" tab for the alternate style example .. pretty clunky) MooTools Calendar: http://www.electricprism.com/aeron/calendar/ Anyone have any better examples of UI DatePicker styles?