JQuery Tools - The UI library for the Web

by huyng • 17 years ago

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SwellJoe• 17 years ago

So, this is different from jQuery UI?

kgrin• 17 years ago

Yes; it looks like it's more focused on a lightweight set of core features (obviously opinions as to what constitutes "core" features may vary).

It actually seems more reminiscent of early mootools.

dotandimet• 17 years ago

They specifically refer to the basic JQuery UI elements when they state, under "Essential tools for modern websites"

<blockquote> Let's face it: do you really need drag-and-drop, resizables, selectables or sortable tables in your web applications? Websites are not desktop applications. They are different.

What you really need are tabs, tooltips, accordions, overlays, smooth navigation, great visual effects and all those "web 2.0" goodies that you have seen on your favourite websites.

This library contains six of the most useful JavaScript tools available for today's website. The beauty of this library is that all of these tools can be used together, extended, configured and styled. In the end, you can have hundreds of different widgets and new personal ways of using the library. </blockquote>

This looks like repackaging the more popular stand-alone jQuery plugins/widgets into a single bundle/distribution, with nice docs and demos, very different from jQuery UI which is more like half a framework and some widgets.

kristiandupont• 17 years ago

And I have to say that I agree with them. Whenever I am confronted with, say, a "window" in a web app (i.e. a popup that I can move around in the browser), it just feels weird.

kingsley_20• 17 years ago

Different,yes, but not necessarily in a way that matters to me.

audionerd• 17 years ago

Do they list any advantage for using Flashembed over SWFObject?

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

tkiley• 17 years ago

Some of the tools look like great implementations, but if I ever saw a website use the "expose" tool (http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/expose/index.html), I'd be pissed. It doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose, except perhaps for a first-use help screen, and even then, it's disconcerting.

marcusbooster• 17 years ago

I dunno, combine it with a little animation on the element and you got yourself a nice little lightbox.

misuba• 17 years ago

...that doesn't behave like any other lightbox anywhere. This Expose tool is just flat-out bad UI; it emphasizes something, makes the user guess how to deemphasize it, and isn't visibly for anything.

nixme• 17 years ago

It's useful for videos to minimize page clutter when you're not watching full screen. Hulu does a similar effect when you hit "Lower Lights" next to a playing video.

weaksauce• 17 years ago

Youtube does this now too.

wmeredith• 17 years ago

It's a great feature when you're watching a 30 minute video.

MOdMac• 17 years ago

Its good to see some more options but it still does not compare to jQuery UI with its unified styling and theme roller.

I like having jQuery UI components standalone and using them as needed, relying on compression and merging tools like yui compressor to do their job.

Being a smaller core set of components is not really a big benifit.

They have a good point about the api improvements over jQuery UI but i can't see it being enough to switch.

Spyckie• 17 years ago

It looks like flowplayer built custom animations for themselves and decided to release it as a library. Good publicity and a well designed website.

I think the library itself has great video support but not much else.

brown9-2• 17 years ago

Aren't all jQuery UI library's for the web?

jonursenbach• 17 years ago

Wish our team had found this a month ago, we just finished building half of these things.

csbartus• 17 years ago

awesome, it's so put-together, i'll definitively use it. together with the jquery ui library.

destrado• 17 years ago

has anyone found a way to get non-minified js version of this library? to me this library is as good as closed-source

JQuery Tools - The UI library for the Web

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