Its seems that JQuery has definitely secured its hold on the JavaScript client toolset. There have been some interesting new extensions that are interesting.
- JQuery visualize – Trivially converts an HTML table into a graph using 1 line of code “$(‘table’).visualize();”. Definitely read this one, I’m not entirely sold on the single line approach – but bang for buck its definitely up there. As you would expect it has been tested under IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3.5, Safari 3 and 4, Opera 9 – so interoperability is good
- JQueryui.com – jQuery UI provides abstractions for low-level interaction and animation, advanced effects and high-level, themeable widgets, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications. The thing I like most with the JavaScript tools is that you can view the demos right in your browser. JQueryUI has the concept of Theming which is nice for web developers looking to allow their users to change the look of the applications.
Pretty cool stuff,
Gareth