JQuery UI. Is this a beginning of end

JQuery UI. Is this a beginning of end


Hi All,
I am a regular reader and a big fan of JQuery UI. Let me start by
saying that I am a hard core server side developer and know little
about UI. I am very excited about all the UI widgets which have come
out and are in process kudos to all the developers. Although the
concept is very fascinating and I started using it in one of my
project. I just want to point out that some of the widgets I have
seen are huge in sizes so if I use one widget and import a 50k package
along with it bothers me. One of the example is DateRange select which
becomes about 43 KB in compact mode now that is a lot for a single
widget which you will use in couple of places on your website.
The big success of JQuery came not only because of the plugins but
also its very compact size which nobody bothers putting it on their
list of imports. JQuery UI widgets are getting so big in size that now
it bothers me to use them on my site. I just want to point out that
please try to keep the widgets very lightweigh so it doesn't go on
path of dojo and get killed due to performance considerations
eventually. Keep it lightweight folks and this is right time to do it.
So bottom line is keep the widgets lightweight. you dont want to
include every possible scenario in the widgets but the bare minimal.
Cheers,
Ritesh