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Posted February 3rd, 2008 by John Resig
Paul Bakaus (jQuery UI Lead) and John Resig (jQuery Lead) working on
the next release of jQuery UI (1.5) and jQuery Core (1.2.3).
It’s a rare treat, in distributed Open Source development, to be able to work face-to-face with a fellow developer. Paul is located in Germany, I in Boston - and much of the jQuery team is scattered around the globe. He stopped into town for the weekend so that we could make sure that all the necessary code was in jQuery core for the upcoming jQuery UI 1.5 release candidate. We also had a chance to discuss the future of jQuery UI and plan out some of the best resource allocations for the upcoming months.
All that being said, this next release is going to be fantastic. It’s what jQuery UI 1.0 should have been. It’s been rough because of all the constraints on developer time that were in place when we first set out with this project, but it’s been getting better. Paul now works on jQuery UI full-time - and Liferay is putting a ton of resources towards making sure that the future of the library will be successful. It’s really exciting to see this project grow up and start to see some light.
jQuery 1.2.3 should be released within the next couple days (after some more testing) and jQuery UI 1.5rc1 will be announced on the jQuery UI mailing list at about that time.
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:41 am
Great news !
Thanks for all your hard work!
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:37 am
Good luck guys, and keep up the good work! Looking forward to jQuery 1.2.3 so that Drupal 6 can be released
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:42 am
With a full selection of gizmos and widgets, jQuery may just knock some of the other libraries off of the charts.
MooFX MooTools being one that has plenty of available nav thingies, but why would I want to work with that library, when jQuery is known for kicking-@$$ and taking names across the board.
Hope you all have a great weekend.
Anyone interested in jQuery UI should join the google group, they’ve got their own group there, right Paul!
February 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 am
Nice! Any chance menus will make the 1.5 release? I would love to ditch YUI but that is the last piece of the puzzle missing for me.
February 3rd, 2008 at 11:57 am
This is fantastic. You guys are doing a great job at liaising with Drupal to help with the 6.0 release. My website’s going to be moving from D5 -> D6 this week and looking forward to all the performance gains in jQuery 1.2 over 1.1, plus extra features. UI 1.5 sounds like a lot of fun too
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:01 pm
I don’t think you’re giving yourself enough credit. A 1.0 release is not supposed to be feature complete or bug free. It’s not “supposed” to be anything in fact. To me, a 1.0 release is just the first release, and I’d much rather have one now than four years of 0.x.y releases like so many other projects do.
No release is ever going to have everything you want. It’s okay, because you can just create subsequent releases. Granted, it’s a little trickier when you have to maintain API compatibility, but there are ways with dealing with that that do not require having a crystal ball.
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:14 pm
You guys look really happy ! Perhaps a little too happy…
This is good news and glad to hear of the added effort going into JQuery UI. Thanks Paul/Liferay !
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Yipee!
Thanks for all the hard work on JQuery and UI.
I really hope i can use it in my current project, but when i see both those happy faces, it MUST be great!
Cheers.
February 4th, 2008 at 10:00 am
I’m excited for the release.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:02 am
很好,很强大.
继续支持JQ.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:47 am
[…] paul and john are currently hard at work for rolling out jquery ui 1.5 and jquery enchant 1.0. yesterday first alpha releases were facing the world. here are some words by paul: 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. […]
February 7th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
those are good news
Jquery is fantastic
this seems to be good news too
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/02/07/apples_safari_3_1_to_support_downloadable_web_fonts_more.html
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February 15th, 2008 at 2:12 am
i just started jquery last last month and now it really improves alot on its UI versions well goodluck to all Jquery Team
February 17th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Sounds dope. I’ll need to get my jQuery API Dreamweaver extension updated for this release.
http://xtnd.us (jQuery API 1.2.x extension for Dreamweaver)
March 4th, 2008 at 12:27 am
Hi Paul and John..
Good work and keep going ….
jay
March 9th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Hi Paul and John
Thanks so much!
goodLuck boys