jQuery UI Bootstrap
jQuery UI Bootstrap is an open-source effort by @addyosmani to introduce the Bootstrap styling into the standard jQuery UI widgets. It covers many of the widgets available on the jQuery UI website including:
- Accordion
- Tabs
- Buttons and Button Sets
- Horizontal slider
- Progress Bar
- Dialogs
- Icons
- Date Picker
Whilst it’s still a work in process, what’s available already is fantastic and I’d love to see where this project goes. It’s the next logical step for the Bootstrap framework; we have the standard web elements and layouts, now it’s about making those pages interactive using one of the most popular widget libraries available, jQuery UI, and making that look like the rest of the site…well it just makes good sense.
Bootstrap
Here’s a quick introduction to Bootstrap for those that haven’t yet heard of it, or aren’t sure what it does.
Bootstrap is a prototyping framework introduced by Twitter in mid-2011. It’s aimed at making more consistent browsing experience for users as they browse various sites and applications on the web. It’s free, open-source, and uses LessCSS making it a breeze to modify to suit your own needs.
Since it’s launch, it has been very well received by the developer community, and I’ve noticed it being adopted by many popular websites and open-source software including:
I’ve even used it on the Cube Websites website for the form elements and as a grid system.
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jQuery UI Bootstrap seems like a great idea, and has a lot of potential for making Bootstrap even better. I’ll definitely be trying it on my next project involving UI widgets. Whilst it looks fantastic already, I’d love to see where it goes from here. One of the things I’d like to see is the stylesheets done in Less so that the widgets can be customised to look exactly how the web designer wants.
Look nice…. i will try it. Thanks!