jQuery Support in Zend Framework 1.7

In Zend Framework 1.7 there will offer native jQuery UI support.

The link above offers good documenation on different potential use-cases for jQuery UI plugins as helpers and how they will be implemented in Zend Framework. There is also a link to some examples and some comments on how the implementation may look like. Interesting. I made a list 1,5 year ago on why jQuery will win the race as the standard JavaScript library and it looks like number 9 in that list is the thing that will make sure that John and jQuery sets the standards for how You are going to work with JavaScript solutions in the future.

There are more interesting things in the 1.7 Preview Release, though not feature complete. See list below and download the Preview Release from http://framework.zend.com/download/latest

While 1.7PR is not a feature complete release in the 1.7 series, it nevertheless contains some very important features scheduled for the 1.7 production release:

• New Zend_AMF component
• Dojo Toolkit 1.2.0
• New ZendX_JQuery component
• Support for dijit editor
• Metadata API in Zend_Cache
• Google book search API
• Performance enhancements
• Application-wide locale with other i18n enhancements
• File upload form element enhancements