Javascript Widgets

[Justin Bozonier]

So what do you guys build your widgets in? I'm thinking I would like
to contribute to something like jQuery UI or the like or start a new
one to address the lacking widget support. The best thing I have found
as of yet is Ext-js but the license is hella restrictive.

[Daniel D. Shaw]

If you like Ext-js's rich UI and are looking to contribute to a
project, you might consider SmartClient ( http://www.smartclient.com
). It seems to offer similar features to Ext, though I don't
particularly care for it's UI elements.

I prefer to work with jQuery personally, but jQuery UI doesn't compare
to Ext at all IMHO.

[Quin]

The "which widget library" question has always been kinda painful b/c
it never fails that once I choose a library, I would need 2-3 widgets
that they didn't have and I would be integrating yet another library
on top of it. That's actually not a bad thing, but the painful part
was that each widget library had their own conventions for
instantiation, communication, parameterization, etc. This led us
(Appcelerator) to create a thin wrapper that we put around any 3rd
party widget we use that standardizes the usage regardless of the
widget's source (EXT, YUI, even Flash). Works really well and allows
me to swap out widgets fairly easily if necessary.