About jQuery UI Widgets

I have been working with a project based on jQuery and jQuery UI for a while. The new widgets, recently added to jQuery UI are autocomplete and buttons (also buttonsets), proved to be very useful and fill the gap.

autocomplete

button and buttonset

However, they are not features rich like other widgets in jQuery UI. I sometime need to hack things around to make it do a bit complicated tasks but in general, they are working good and look pretty with support for jQuery CSS Framework.

I would be happy to see Menu and Layout widgets add to jQuery UI soon. For the menu, I have tried the candidated Menu widget. Although it's still in the lab, not ready for production but it works and look very pretty.

Fg.Menu - the candidated Menu Widget for jQuery UI

However, it doesn't support standalone vertical menu yet so I modified Superfish to make its looks and feel like one of jQuery UI widget. You can see my on-going online shopping project for an idea (PantipShop, Gedthawha and CShopOnline)

I am also using jQuery.UI.Layout in one of my web app project. I don't think it is an official Layout widget for jQuery UI but it works just fine. If you need to make a web app that look a bit like native application, it's worth to try.