Superb, well done team jQuery! The UI stuff is looking smooth. I notice that there are even some significant changes to the innerds of jQuery in v1.2.3. (For instance you've coded the :selectors using functions instead if strings. Has that improved performance?)
George On Feb 7, 4:02 pm, Rey Bango <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.ziphttp://ui.jquery.com/1.5a/demos/ > > jQuery > Enchant:http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery.enchant-1.0a.ziphttp://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.jshttp://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.2.3.min.jshttp://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.2.3.pack.js
