Not too long ago, I found out that Dan Wellman was looking for people to review his new book entitled jQuery UI 1.7. Naturally I jumped at the chance, and his publishers were generous enough to send me a copy.

I’ve used a number of the widgets included in the jQuery UI library before, and found them to be great out of the box, but tricky to skin. Because of this, I was particularly interested in seeing whether Dan delved into this.

So far I’m about a third of the way through the book, and Dan has not disappointed. I’ll provide a more detailed review once I’m finished, but it’s already answered a lot of the questions I had at the outset, so it’s been a worthwhile read for me.

Also because jQuery UI is a mature framework, I can see this book having longevity.