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#1: 8-Jun-2009, 02:19 PM

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Anyone tried jQuery Tools? It has received its equal share of good and bad press but it does seem interesting. I will probably be using it though.

Find it here

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#2: 8-Jun-2009, 02:52 PM

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I haven't tried it, but it looks very nice indeed. They have packaged together several of the scripts that we commonly use, and it looks like a solid combo to me. What bad press have they received?
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#3: 8-Jun-2009, 02:57 PM

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It's been mostly good press but there's some people who thought the author was being arrogant toward jQuery UI...in particular these words on his website

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Let's face it: do you really need drag-and-drop, resizable windows or sortable lists in your web applications? Websites are not desktop applications.

There's a lengthy discussion here.... Good thing is that they seem to have made up now and all is well in the community Cheesy

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#4: 8-Jun-2009, 03:00 PM

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I pretty much never use jQuery UI because it tends to be humongous, so I guess I agree with that sentiment. Not that the six scripts that are in this package are necessarily the best and only ones that I would generally use, but it seems like a nice toolkit for some applications. Thanks for bringing it to our attention!
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#5: 8-Jun-2009, 03:05 PM

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No probs, welcome. You know you can customize jQuery UI? You don't need to download the whole package. Having said that...some people still think it is bloated...

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#6: 8-Jun-2009, 03:09 PM

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Quote from: kongondo on  8-Jun-2009, 03:05 PM
No probs, welcome. You know you can customize jQuery UI? You don't need to download the whole package. Having said that...some people still think it is bloated...
Yep I still feel as if most of the UI scripts are a bit bloated.
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#7: 8-Jun-2009, 03:33 PM

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#8: 8-Jun-2009, 03:34 PM

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Based on jQuery...

/k
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#9: 8-Jun-2009, 03:34 PM


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I agree with ZAP.  jQuery UI + tabs comes in at 122kb minified. The jQuery Tools equivalent is just over 1kb in size. Neither of those numbers is including jQuery.

I've never had a project that needed all of the functionality that UI provided, but the demos on the Tools website look like what I need 90% of the time.

I plan on giving it a shot in my next project.  I typically use Flowplayer for video embedding anyway so the integration for that is just another benefit.

#10: 8-Jun-2009, 03:40 PM

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It did cause a "great" buzz in twitter (so I read...)...

/k
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#11: 8-Jun-2009, 04:10 PM


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#12: 8-Jun-2009, 04:20 PM

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Compressed, (I suppose - faster load times)...but this will work only when gzipping is enabled on the server side - I am assuming you meant Gzip compression, no? Or did you mean minification?

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#13: 8-Jun-2009, 04:29 PM


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Ok! ! Statement ! -Unzipping is faster than transfering file!
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#14: 8-Jun-2009, 04:35 PM

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Thx for that link mrhaw

Here's a live test for the response time improvement of gzipped components.

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#15: 8-Jun-2009, 04:41 PM


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That page rocks, tnx Kongondo! Smiley
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#16: 14-Jun-2009, 01:44 PM

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Coda slider and more with jQuery Tools

http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/coda-slider-and-more-with-jquery-tools/

/k
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