QuickUI: an object-oriented alternative UI framework for jQuery

QuickUI: an object-oriented alternative UI framework for jQuery 2.79 http://spkr8.com/t/8507

Jan Miksovsky 2.79

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Description:

While jQuery UI is the de facto UI framework for jQuery, the platform certainly enables other possibilities. One alternative is QuickUI (http://quickui.org), an object-oriented user interface framework in which controls (widgets) are authored in a declarative markup language that’s essentially HTML with the ability to create new tags. QuickUI markup is compiled into legible and debuggable JavaScript classes, enabling an ecosystem of modular, composable, and easily subclassable controls. QuickUI controls allow all the goodness of object-oriented design to be applied to UI construction, and permit the creation of a common set of design artifacts for UI designers and developers. Jan presents the basics of control creation in QuickUI, highlights aspects of interest to the general jQuery audience, and shares lessons from using QuickUI at Cozi.

Comments on this Talk

erickrdch, 02 Oct 02:27 PM

Starting 15 mins late on a 45 mins conf is not good, not knowing how to make your presentation readable for your audience is worst.

chrisoh, 02 Oct 06:35 PM

the content was interesting but the presentation needs a lot of work - particularly if the objective of the presentation was to win over / get the audience to consider the technology/framework being presented. the speaker became "stand-offish" after refusing audience suggestion to improve the display - not a good way to start a presentation!

alvincrespo, 03 Oct 03:36 AM

I thought the material being presented was something that was interesting, helpful and overall very cool. Still not sure where this would fit within the realm of where I work (advertising), however for personal projects - I can see this stuff being very helpful.

I do have to admit that Jan did seem "standoff-ish", however he was presenting material and someone just blurted out during the talk instead of raising his/her hand. Also, the projector's used at this conference were really bad and not the fault of any of the presenters - however if something like this were to occur again I would suggest that the speaker check the actual screen prior to giving the presentation to make sure their info is legible to the attendees.

tom, 04 Oct 06:22 PM

I couldn't read the code on the screen. The presenter had plenty of time to check and fix it before the start but didn't. QuickUI was one of the two technologies presented at the conference that I think are just a simply bad idea—a step in the wrong diration. The other one is Coffeescript. Both should be stampe out before they do much damage.