We here at Pikchur love jQuery and we figured we’d write a short summary of the new features included in jQuery UI 1.7. It’s full of updates, upgrades and uptomization optomizations.
So what’s new?
- Backward compatability! : Well one of the biggest things is the backwards compatability with jQuery 1.3, yes thats right you can upgrade to 1.7 and benifit from all the goodness and speed boosting gremlins, quickly and easily.
- Revamped and optimized plugins : In addition to making all sorts of bug fixes, the jQuery team optimized all of there plugins. With the promise of cleaner code, faster proccess, and more options.
- ThemeRoller V2 + CSS Framework : These two updates have to be my favorite, as a developer I love to geek out over these sorts of things, and well the new openness of the CSS framework and the cool things you can do with the ThemeRoller, make me feel all tingley inside. Err what I mean is that the new CSS framwork update not only supports the standard jQuery UI plugins, but also custom made ones. Opening up a door of possibilities that makes even the most reserved developer dance with joy. Oh and of course ThemeRoller, which has been built to work in conjunction with the new CSS Framework.
Along with a a buch of other updates such as offline documentation, new demos, a revamped website ( http://ui.jquery.com/ ), and a dedicated blog, (http://blog.jqueryui.com/) its no wonder jQuery is always ahead of the game.
~Peter
