Introduction and wish list :)

Introduction and wish list :)


Most of you have all ready seen me on the main list as a contributor
now and then. Unfortunately i have way to little time and way to much
to do, and i think i am speaking on behalf of all of us when i say
that i would like to clone myself a zillion times to do all things i
would like to do. Anyway, i've made some contributions to the
interface library in the past, mainly asking Stefan for the slider
widget and i did a big fix on the selectables code.
The reason i contacted Paul is that i wanted to update my own cssHover
plugin (which can be found on http://gilles.jquery.com/cssHover/ to be
more flexible). After giving it some thought, i decided to join forces
with jQuery's UI team and try to incorporate the css-ish hover
functions i've build for my own into the UI. I've sent Paul a huge
list of widgets i would like to create and what my thoughts are on
them, and he will probably make that email public one day, in some
form.
Anyway, hope to help and i hope to build the foundation for the theme-
ability of the UI library. I already have my idea's, but to be honest
I'll have to look into other library's code (e.g. the new Dojo 0.9
release) how they did the styling. Maybe i can get some idea's.
I would like to see a few things in the UI library and those things
are:
- Sortable (off course)
- Selectable
- Tree view
One thing i really like of the "competition" EXT is their tree view. I
think their drag-drop is downright sweet (items automatically nesting
below others and parents who can't go below children) including the
visual feedback with a green icon and a red icon.
I would also love to see that the "dragstart" function works in
combination with the selectable, so you know how many items are
selected and create thumbnails for dragging/dropping (like the EXT
photo organizer)