Well we have been recieving a lot of emails since our last post regarding the UI library. We decided to provide an early access to some of the tests for the library and documentation around it. There is a lot of work still to be done and we hope to steer the project according to the feedback we recieve.

You can check out demos and docs here.

Feel free to post your comments/suggestion here.

Apart from the usual clientel work, we are working hard to bring our UI library to a stable release. A lot of work has been done and a lot more needs to be done. So keep checking the blog for latest updates on that.

This past long weekend (for us canadians) I decided to experiment with canvas and javascript. The reasonable thing to do was to build a simple charting script. After few hours of work and inspiration from Flot (jQuery plotting engine) here is the result:

Of course, this is completely based on Prototype and it supports the basic line chart, scatter plot, bar graphs and maybe next weekend I will add pie chart support to it. The code is still a bit messy so I won’t be posting it right now. I will probably wait till I am done with pie chart support before release an alpha and let you folks test it out.

So yeah a lot is going on but that doesn’t mean we don’t have time to chit chat with others. Feel free to throw us an email if you want to discuss about your next project or if you just want to say hello.

Well its about time that we told you guys more about the User Interface Lib that we have been working on. Its far from being production ready but since we aim to launch it as an open source project we thought it might be useful to start getting some input from the community.

You can read initial docs but please note that documentation will be changing without any notice. You can also check out demos here.

Lately I have been working on a User Interface library that runs on top of Prototype and Scriptaculous framework. Please note that this library is in very early stage and I am planning on releasing the source code soon. Still have a lot of issues to fix and address but I wanted to float the idea in public and get wheels rolling.

So what does this UI library have?

This library will have the following components:

• Layout
• Splitter
• Panel
• Button
• Menu
• Tab
• Tree
• and more…

These will be the foundation layer components. With support of Prototype based class inheritance I have also been working on some widgets such as:

• CheckBoxTree
• AjaxTree
• AjaxPanel
• ButtonMenu
• ContextMenu
• Toolbar
• Accordion
• and more…

As mentioned earlier I am still working towards first public preview release but if you have any suggestions or comments please feel free to post them here. I should have a first public preview ready for you soon (can’t promise dates yet)

This library is in no-way meant to compete against ExtJS or Dojo or other such libraries but I believe that with community support we can bring an amazing UI layer to Prototype and Scriptaculous framework.

The main focus is to provide solid foundation layer and believe that our community will build and contribute amazing set of Widgets.

Here are screenshots for Button and Splitter (using Firefox 2.0)