jQuery Roundup: jQuery UI 1.8.12, IndexedDB, Apprise
jQuery UI 1.8.12
jQuery UI 1.8.12 is out. Upgrading should be fairly simple as the upgrade guide says there are now backwards incompatible changes. This version includes bug fixes for Resizable, Autocomplete, Datepicker, Dialog, Progressbar, Slider, and Tabs.
IndexedDB
IndexedDB by Parashuram provides a simple chained API for the Indexed Database API. This specification is still a working draft, but Firefox 4, Chrome, and potentially IE support it.
Indexed Database API is a client-side database for simple values and hierarchical objects. It supersedes Web SQL Database which is considered deprecated. Parashuram’s jQuery plugin makes a flatter API, which looks like this:
$.indexeddb('BookShop-1').objectStore('BookList').openCursor().each(write);
The alternative is nested callbacks for each operation, which makes this seem pretty slick by comparison. I have a feeling we could even lose openCursor, because it seems implicit to me, but that’s up to the author.
Apprise
Apprise (License) is an alternative to alert(). Basic usage is just like alert, but it can also prompt for values or act like confirm(). It looks a bit like Firefox 4’s alert boxes.
It doesn’t depend on jQuery UI, which means you don’t need to add a full UI library just to get prettier popup boxes.
