Blog » jQuery UI 1.5b4, featuring effects and a new home
Posted May 5th, 2008 by PauljQuery UI 1.5b4
Attention: We originally intended to release 1.5b3 a couple of hours ago, but we had two serious issues that forced use to deprecate it and go for b4. Sorry for the inconvenience.
The third and last beta has finally arrived to jQuery UI 1.5. Hundreds of hours went into fixing more than 50 bugs for this release - it’s all about stability. jQuery UI 1.5b4 is the last release before pushing out a release candidate - and with only 5 major bugs left, you can expect to see the next release in the next couple of days!
Although it’s mainly a stability release, we also introduced many new API helpers, removed the dimensions dependancy and made all plugins a bit smaller by introducing a generic widget factory into the core. Even better, performance of UI components firing events (i.e. “mousemove” in Draggables) was dramatically improved with recent changes in the jQuery core.
With the release candidate following right after this one, we will also push out a live test suite for everyone to use on any platform, helping us to track down issues, and fixing them for the final release. Yes, this means you an expect a stable, solid and performance-optimised 1.5 release this month!
Go grab the whole package (This package includes a custom build jQuery you’ll need, too):
jQuery Enchant becomes part of jQuery UI
After many weeks of discussions, I’m particulary happy to announce that the unreleased jQuery effects suite “Enchant”, earlier introduced as sister library to jQuery UI, is now a part of jQuery UI. With the 1.5b4 release, you’ll see a bunch of new files in the project’s folder!
The jQuery UI effects can be used standalone or together with UI and have a separate core, which extend the jQuery core to introduce easing, class transitions (morphing) and color animations. All further effects are tighly integrated into the main API and can be used as standalone ( $(..).effect() ) or directly from within jQuery methods you already know ( hide()/show() ).
There’s no documentation for the rich effect API at this point, but we’ll make sure it’s released before the final release of jQuery UI 1.5. In the meantime, feel free to start digging through the code - and watch more more blog posts discussing the new effects!
Overall, we have more than 15 ready-to-use effects for you to use in your projects, not only including everything you know from script.aculo.us (blind,bounce,drop,fold,slide …), but also fresh new effects (transfer, explode. clip, scale) for you to enjoy!
jQuery UI has a new home
I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that jQuery UI has finally found a new home at http://ui.jquery.com, along with brand new content, a new combined logo and a complete new design. After many weeks of iterations, we finally found the time to concentrate a bit on the website.
The new site features a complete new download builder already including effects, a real-world demo carousel, and a functional demo suite that makes it easy to see and try out UI examples and their syntax. Also planned for the next weeks is a theme section with directions on downloading UI themes and how to make them, and a tutorials section that will feature easy tutorials to easily learn controlling UI widgets.
A big thanks and kudos goes to Liferay’s Art Director Brian Miller, who did a great job and invested countless hours to achieve this beautiful design!
See you soon!
Paul Bakaus and the jQuery UI Team
May 5th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
guys, hats off to you. And just when I was beginning to get worried. I am following you both on twitter, (jive), so I guess next time I won’t get so impatient! Great job.
This is very exciting!
May 5th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
[…] Saw that jQuery UI has been updated to 1.5b4 and that Enchant is now part of UI as the effects engine. Neat. […]
May 5th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Great job, thx Jquery UI Team !
May 5th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Seems like the new release has completely broken draggable+resizable now. I would post a bug report but the jQuery Trac isn’t working either: IntegrityError: (1062, “Duplicate entry ‘bf4f39c0467ab22-0-0′ for key 1″)
Sigh.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
[…] Citind blogul jQuery văd că noua versiune (ce este în continuare beta) repară un sac de bug-uri, aduce un redesign al paginii UI (care între noi fie vorba… arată MULT mai frumos decât precedentul), un downloader pentru un build custom al UI şi câteva demo-uri la efectele din UI/Enchant. […]
May 5th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Neat, the website is realeased at last
We still need to do some fixes, yet is as cool as the UI team
Congratulations for the release, have fun coding guys!
May 5th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
@Nick Fletcher: This error comes up when you’re not logged in to Trac. If you haven’t already, you can create an account at http://dev.jquery.com/register
May 5th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Really grreat look & feel! Nice Website!
May 5th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
[…] jQuery UI 1.5b4 gets released with integrated jQuery Enchant (which was the missing part of ui: a library completely devoted to rich effects.)! Great to see this, as the role of jQuery UI now can be compared to what script.aculo.us is to prototype, but then to jQuery of course. (BTW: jQuery 1.2.4 to be released on May 15th
) Spread the word! […]
May 5th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Nice new look, but finding demos and a good list of what jQuery UI provides is still pretty painful. That slider for the demos is probably not the best format for viewing demos imo. I still can’t find a listing of the effects provided in jQuery UI, which is a big reason I would want to use it, as I’m sure many others would too. Not to get down on anyone, the library is nice, but the public facing website describing it isn’t very helpful. Its hard to find time for that kind of stuff I know, but I was hoping after reading this post that some of those would have been addressed.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Awesome as always
May 5th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Can’t wait to give it a spin today…
May 6th, 2008 at 12:02 am
[…] Visit Original: jQuery UI 1.5b4, featuring effects and a new home […]
May 6th, 2008 at 3:14 am
[…] Blogul jQuery a anunţat astăzi că “pachetul” pentru efecte vizuale, jQuery UI, a ajuns la ultimul beta şi se pregăteşte pentru primul Release Candidate, în câteva zile. În respectivul anunţ găsiţi mai multe detalii despre noutăţile aduse de acest ultim beta. Au fost rezolvate vreo 50 de buguri, dar au rămas 5 majore. Luna aceasta ar urma să fie rezolvate toate problemele pentru a ne bucura de un jQuery UI solid. Cu siguranţă sunt subiectiv, dar tare mă îndoiesc… Pariul meu este fie că 1) jQuery UI 1.5 final nu va fi scos luna aceasta; fie că 2) va fi scos, dar nu va fi deloc solid. Cu părere de rău, în timp ce jQuery este destul de solid, excelent pentru AJAX, manipulări de elemente HTML ş.a., sublibrăria pentru efecte jQuery nu a funcţionat bine de la început. […]
May 6th, 2008 at 3:15 am
I simply love this library. I will wait for the final release and just hope that it will not cause big problems with some very nice jQuery plugins out there
May 6th, 2008 at 3:30 am
Hey guys, will be whether UI to work correctly under IE6 ???????????????????????????
Some body test it under IE6 ???
May 6th, 2008 at 5:18 am
[…] Im jQuery Weblog wird gerade das letzte Betarelease vor der stabilen Version des jQuery Userinterfaces (kurz UI) gefeiert. Lustiger Weise von Paul […]
May 6th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Sweet! Great going Team! Looking forward to more great stuff.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Not all demos un UI site work in IE6. Particularly the resizable image demo kills explorer 6 (try it and see: an endless loop of error messages)
May 6th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
[…] (Via jQuery Blog.) « 20080402-outaTiME, clubbers-vol.2 […]
May 6th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I love it when people build websites that don’t scale properly when fonts are zoomed.
Otherwise looks nice.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
[…] Источник: jQuery. Категория: JavaScript libraries, jQueryАвтор: Spider Дата: 6 Май 2008 Время: 21:58 […]
May 7th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
well done, guy
May 8th, 2008 at 7:53 am
very nice site! congratz!!!
May 8th, 2008 at 10:28 am
New design is perfect!
May 8th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Hey guys,
Great release… congrats… one thing though… the tabs example sends you back to the base of the functional demo’s section every time you click on one (after it selects / disables / inserts / or adds a tab)… thought you might want to fix this one
May 9th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Draggable elements with helpers are not rendering correctly on Safari for Windows (the clone appears under the original element, away from the cursor).
May 12th, 2008 at 5:09 am
Site looks good, but there is some inline styling and JavaScript in the HTML of the page (just semantics). Maybe demos should use non-Apple images and product names?
May 12th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Huh!? I’m seeing
Error: missing } after property list
using jquery-1.2.4b.packed.js
The other versions (min, full) work fine. Strange that no one has commented on this earlier…
You may want to bump up to b5
Anyway, I appreciate your recent decisions (integrating effects, dimensions), that’s great. Can’t wait for the effects documentation.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Hi Ricardo,
I’m getting the same error with IE and firefox on windows:
“Draggable elements with helpers are not rendering correctly on Safari for Windows (the clone appears under the original element, away from the cursor).”
May 13th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Love the new website, can’t wait until 1.5 is released.
Continue the great work!
May 13th, 2008 at 1:33 am
great job! keep it going!
May 13th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Hey,
great release…..the site looks very good!
May 13th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Will the datePicker support “time”?