Richard Worth
The Rich Web Experience
Orlando · December 1 - 4, 2009
Sr. Developer of jQuery UI
Richard D. Worth is a UI developer in the Washington, DC area. He is one of the lead developers of jQuery UI, a component framework built on top of jQuery, designed to make Rich Internet Applications as simple as jQuery has made Ajax. Richard is also a co-author of the upcoming book 'jQuery Cookbook'.
Presentations
jQuery
jQuery is one of the most popular and easy to use JavaScript frameworks. jQuery is an open source library that simplifies DOM manipulation, event handling, Ajax, and animation. The jQuery core is lean and light, while having the power and extensibility to support a rich plugin ecosystem. It also sports a concise and elegant API that is a joy to behold and use.
Learning jQuery UI and the jQuery UI CSS Framework
jQuery UI, built on top of jQuery, is a complete set of behaviors and components that can be used in building Rich Internet Applications. Behaviors and components included in jQuery UI include drag-and-drop, resizing, mouse-sorting, mouse-selecting (click-select, shift-select, ctrl-select, lasso select), dialogs, sliders, tabs, trees, grids, toolbars and menus.
Each component adheres to a consistent standard across API, design, behavior and theming. This minimizes the surprise and makes learning all of them as easy as learning one. Just as with jQuery, there is a plugin system in jQuery UI that allows users to easily modify/extend existing components, as well as create your own.
jQuery UI also includes a powerful and flexible CSS framework. The jQuery UI CSS Framework, the first CSS framework to focus on UI widgets rather than web page design and layout, brings consistency to a web User Interface, while allowing developers of all levels of design experience to customize and tweak it to fit an existing or a new site design.
Advanced jQuery UI: Build Your Own Widgets
jQuery UI makes it easy to create web user interfaces as rich as traditional desktop applications. It's a growing suite of interfaces, widgets, and effects that can make an advanced web UI with drag-and-drop, animation, and standard UI design.
jQuery UI supports all major web browsers, and is as easy to use as
$(“Hello, World”).dialog();
Not only does jQuery UI provide a suite of tested and documented cross-browser UI components, but it provides a simple mechanism for creating your own UI Widgets, to encapsulate user interfaces and interactions, so custom interface coding is abstracted away and reusable.