After my last tutorial on building a simple inlineEdit plugin I converted the concepts into a UI widget. It's now sitting in labs for you to use, pick apart and devour:

http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/branches/labs/inlineedit/demo.html

If you inspect the source code you will notice the structure is quite different. It's actually pretty much the same functionality wise but I have separated each piece into smaller chunks. This makes it easier to extend in future (I plan to write more on ways to extend UI widgets in another post).

Here's a quick peek at the features:

• Basic inline editing - click, edit, save
• Ability to save on pressing ENTER key
• Cancel by un-focussing the input or clicking cancel
• ThemeRoller ready
• Customisable empty placeholder
• Save and Cancel callbacks
• Cancelable Save callback (so you could script a cancel action)

As usual please feedback and help improve this widget either by commenting here or on the InlineEdit design & planning page

Enjoy!

Sorry for no news these past few months. It's been very hectic since the new family addition back in Dec which I managed to keep low key. I feel so guilty now for neglecting this blog and my readers (don't think I have any regulars anyway so I guess nothing missed!), but hey priorities are priorities!

Right, the reason for this post is that there has been some recent exciting updates to the spinner which I would love to get feedback on from the public. Thanks to Brant Burnett, the Spinner has been re-invigorated and looks set to become a kick ass component in the making!

We've added a bunch of new features and updates including:

• support for jquery 1.3.2
• support for ThemeRoller
• spinning hexidecimals and other numbering systems
• ability to auto-hide buttons and show on hover with customizable speeds
• better keyboard interaction - you could now use PgUp/PgDn to setup up/down in a large increment set by options

We also have a lot more in the works, such as:

• ability to spin time and date
• segment spinning based on formatter
• HTML5 support
• and more...

If interested, check out the latest demo

We're still in the planning / development stage so any features you see now or currently being planned may not necessarily land in the final release. It all depends on what you want - collectively that is! So if there is something you really think should be added please shout in the dev mailing list or on the UI planning wiki.

Looking forward to some feedback.

Thanks!

Today marks the release of jQuery UI 1.6 1.7. Kudos to UI team members who've done a fantastic job!

I'm pretty excited not only because I'm now part of this fantastic team but also with where UI is headed and how it has progressed thus far. UI is still pretty young compared to other UI libraries so there is much to learn from the likes of Dojo, ExtJS and YUI - all great frameworks in their own right.

1.7 see's a total refactor of the UI CSS Framework and ThemeRoller v2. This must be by far the greatest visible improvement in this version of UI. Though it is but one part of the hard work put into this release.

For full details on this release see the official release announcement.