While it's arguing a bit of a technicality, I maintain that Interface is not part of the core development of jQuery, and that it's still very much an addon, not a true first class citizen like in Ext/YUI.
From http://docs.jquery.com/About/Contributors
"Interface has been adopted as an officially-sponsored jQuery plugin" While Interface is made by jQuery developers, it's still just a plugin, and isn't even hosted on (or even specially promoted much on) the main jquery.com site. Even so, Interface is not Ext/YUI, and it probably never will be (which I like about it, btw). I think Interface falls about in the middle between vanilla jQuery and a heavier widget driven library. --Erik On 6/27/07, Ganeshji Marwaha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>While some people have used it to build >some desktop application type widgets, I don't think that is really >the primary focus of the core development team. Is "interface" not part of core development team? - GTG On 6/27/07, Erik Beeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you're looking for really fancy Desktop Application type controls, > jQuery probably isn't the right library for you. jQuery is awesome at > being a really small, blazing fast library that adds just the right > amount of features to the javascript language that it actually makes > javascript development fun(tm). It's like javascript++, and it's > really good at what it does. While some people have used it to build > some desktop application type widgets, I don't think that is really > the primary focus of the core development team. > > However, jQuery does play along just fine with the other "heavyweight" > frameworks/libraries that you mentioned. There's even some sort of > thing for integrating jQuery with Ext I believe. So there's no reason > that you couldn't use the YUI or Ext components if you wanted to. > > That's not to discourage developers from building widgets with jQuery. > I use jqModal, jEditable, and parts of Interface all the time and I'm > very glad to not have to load up a big library like YUI to get those > features. I'm just saying, use the tool that is appropriate for your > needs :) > > --Erik > > > On 6/26/07, John Farrar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The intention of this post is to spark a plug-in dream list. > > > > Here's mine... > > > > 1. Tree (like the one in EXTjs) > > 2. Grid (like the one in EXTjs) > > ... if your wondering, I want to do server side markup, and modify only > > when needed. :) > > 3. Windows component. (Popup divs rather than windows that are select > > box safe of course) > > 4. Dialogs (msgBox, inputBox, etc.)... modal ready of course. > > 5. slider input (feeds a hidden form field of course) with dual sliders > > range points of course > > 6. color requestor > > 7. date/time requestor > > 8. drag/drop tile/list components with common drag data interface for > > clean interaction > > 9. Menus > > 10. toolbar (sorry, not sold on the ribbon as good web senario yet... heh.) > > 11. ... add yours here. > > > > ...now likely some of these things are out there already, but this is > > just a shortlist of the "ideal" plugin library. Perhaps they should > > start a survey to see what features are wanted most! > > >
