jQuery Roundup: jQuery UI 1.8.11, jCheck, TufteGraph, Firefox 4
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plugins
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validation
jQuery UI 1.8.11
jQuery UI 1.8.11 is out, and it’s a maintenance release. There are fixes for Accordion, Autocomplete, Button, Datepicker, Draggable, Droppable, Mouse, Sortable, and Effects.
Read the 1.8.11 summary.
jCheck
jCheck (GitHub: wilkerlucio / jcheck, Apache 2.0 License) by Wilker Lúcio is a jQuery validation library that is modelled on the standard Rails validators: validates_acceptance_of, validates_confirmation_of, validates_presence_of and others are available. The author has also created jcheck_rails which adds support to Rails 3.
The client-side API looks like this:
$(function() {
var v = $('#contact-form').jcheck();
v.validates('name', 'message', { presence: true });
v.validates('email', { format: { 'with': 'email', message: 'is not a valid email address' }});
v.validates('message', { length: { minimum: 20, maximum: 255 }});
});
Even if you’re not using Rails I think the API is friendly and worth trying.
TufteGraph
TufteGraph (GitHub: xaviershay / tufte-graph, MIT License) by Xavier Shay is a great charting library which uses functions for configuration options and CSS for styling.
It requires the jQuery enumerable plugin and Raphael. There are some integration tests which demonstrate the library’s potential.
Firefox 4
Meanwhile, Firefox 4 is out today, which has a more refined interface, better JavaScript performance with JägerMonkey, and hardware acceleration. Mozilla also posted Glow, a visualistion of Firefox 4’s downloads.
