Product Description

Create powerful front-end interfaces for your web applications with jQuery UI. This book is for front-end designers and developers that need to quickly learn how to use the jQuery UI User Interface Library. To get the most out of this book you should have a good working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and will need to be comfortable using jQuery, the underlying foundation of jQuery UI.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60874 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 440 pages

About the Author
Dan Wellman lives with his wife and three children in his home town of Southampton on the south coast of England. By day his mild-mannered alter-ego works for a small yet accomplished e-commerce production agency. By night he battles the forces of darkness and fights for truth, justice, and less intrusive JavaScript. He has been writing computer-related articles, tutorials, and reviews for around five years and is rarely very far from a keyboard of some description.

Customer Reviews

A fantastic resource no one should be without
I love this book. What more can I say? It's truly been a fantastic resource to further increase my understanding of the jQuery UI, and is a near constant fixture by my side during project development.

I have developed using jQuery for some time prior to reading this book, and love the code and what can be achieved with so little effort, and this publication only helps to extend my knowledge and skills.

Whether you've been developing jQuery for a while, or are new to this rapidly blossoming library, I would highly recommend that you buy this book. Read it, use it, love it and thank the author for making it even easier to understand. You're web applications will thank you for it.

jQuery UI 1.6: The User Interface Library for jQuery
Dan Wellman's book jQuery UI 1.6 is the kind of book I wish I had when I first started tinkering with jQuery.

Firstly, I'm a web designer, not a developer. Scripting scares me. I'm really out of my comfort zone when I need to bring a web page to life with things like Flash Action Scripting or, in this case, Javascript.

Secondly, I'm a fairly practical kind of bloke who would rather just get something done as a proof of concept and work out how to improve it later. I don't want to learn a language like PHP or Javascript from the ground-up before I can do something like tab interfaces, resizable boxes and drag and drop widgets. So I never have.

The jQuery User Interface (UI) Library is preceisely the kind of thing that I need in order to rapidly prototype web interfaces. It's a set of well tested widgets, compatible with all modern browsers (and some old ones).

This book explains in great detail, with full code examples, how to quickly get cracking with every part of the library. This includes tabs, accordions, pop-ups, sliders, date pickers, auto-complete, drag and drop, resizing, selecting, sorting and various animations.

What I most enjoyed about this book was the rapid pace that Wellman moved me through each of the widgets. First he explains the purpose of the widget followed by the default implementation, how to style of 'skin' the widget to your own requirements and then onto the more intricate details of chaning how it behaves. This kind of approach is very accessible to me.

As a designer I'm quite interested in making the widgets fit the look and feel of my design. It's rare that I ever want to use the default style and if it's not easy to change the chances are I'll look elsewhere. Each and every jQuery UI widget can be styled to exacting requirments and Wellman is keen to highlight this fact.

I'll get the feeling I'll be frequently referring to the chapters on tabs, dialogues, resizing, selecting and sorting the in my day to day work. This is the kind of book you can confidently dip into when you have a specific problem to solve and one that will be a valuable addition to and web design bookshelf.

Must have if you want to have a web 2.0 UI
It's really a must have, if you want to get started, or even if you have already used the UI, but is not s professional.

The book is divided in twelve very illustrative chapters containing code samples, and excellent comments related to what is being presented. the author really focus on cross-browser development, and really emphasizes on the examples, as he's always switching between three of the most used browsers.

I have to admit that I knew some jQuery before reading this book, but even if you don't know it, it's worth a reading, as it started each chapter with really simple examples, and then, they are improved as the chapter rolls. At the end, you have a very nice and working feature you built from scratch.

So if you haven't, go on and buy this book, and you'll wanna keep it on your desk forever ;-)