> Unfortunately, the plugins aren't consistent. You correct in this respect, but what I found possible was for me to fork some of the plugins. With Ext, I coul

> Unfortunately, the plugins aren't consistent. You correct in this respect, but what I found possible was for me to fork some of the plugins. With Ext, I could never dream of doing that in any reasonable time-frame. The last time I had a look at Ext I could not understand if it was possible to introduce some sort of progressive enhancement. Has this changed? Long term the jQuery UI will provide the full set of these widgets, especially since some big names are supporting the organization now. John was a brilliant marketer as he understood what developer wanted. $ not YAHOO.something.something. $().css({}) not Something.Something.getCSS(). IMHO if you look at the evolution of computer languages, Coders always went for the shorthand versions, C won over Pascal as it did away with Begin .. End. This can be applied to all the libaries. It is actually common practice for Coders working with verbose languages such as PHP, to have their own stash of util functions with shorter names. Know Thy Market!