Tag Archives: plugin

UI Developers? LEARN JAVASCRIPT!

By Matthew Taylor | January 12, 2009

I started ranting this morning on Marc Palmer’s blog in response to a post he made about the implementation of JavaScript UI frameworks as plugins to web frameworks. Marc and I have an amicable professional relationship (even though he went through a strange Toto phase), and I think it better to post my response [...]


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Vote for GrailsUI 1.1 issues!

By Matthew Taylor | November 20, 2008

We have gotten a lot of feedback on GrailsUI since its release only a few weeks ago, and there is a long list of issues awaiting work. Some of the new capabilities of GrailsUI will be:

Datepicker date format
Datatable client side pagination and sorting
Datatable inline cell editors
AutoComplete rendered as combo box
New tags for charts
New dataSource [...]


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GrailsUI 1.0 Released

By Matthew Taylor | October 31, 2008

The GrailsUI (GUI) Plugin has been silently under construction for a few months now, and it is ready for public consumption. It provides a collection of useful JavaScript widgets built using the Yahoo! UI library (2.6.0). Extensive documentation is on the Grails site.
GUI was built on three primary concepts, which were inspired by [...]


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Grails-YUI Plugin 2.6.0 & Grails-Bubbling Plugin

By Matthew Taylor | October 27, 2008

I have updated the Grails-YUI plugin (with Marcel’s permission) to use the latest version of the YUI library: 2.6.0.
YUI 2.6.0 is NOT backward compatible with YUI 2.5.2. Do not expect to upgrade and for everything to just work. In 2.5.2, some of the important components like Rich Text Editor and Data Table were [...]


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Check out the latest GroovyMag to see an interview with me about the 1.1 release of GrailsUI: