Summary

This is a maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8.

Build

• Moved to using Google Closure Compiler from YUI Compressor. (062f034)

Core & Utilities

UI Core

• Added $.ui.keyCode.ALT to complete list of metakeys, used in autocomplete (40e3637)

Widget Factory

• Fixed: $.Widget uses [namespace]-state-disabled, must be ui-state-disabled to be useful (5443)

Position

• Fixed: ui.position generates different position in static context (5280)

Interactions

• Added: shopping cart demo for integration of accordion, draggable, droppable and sortable (c9a877e)

Draggable

• Fixed: Draggable/Stackable Demo broken and docs need to be updated (36cb3f7)

Sortable

• Fixed: disabled should not have the ui-state-disabled class (5501)

Widgets

Autocomplete

• Fixed: Don't trigger a search when the left or right arrow keys are used. (5289)
• Removed width:100%; from menu-item styles - was there for icon-support, which was dropped. (e7c2eb4)
• Fixed: menu items have no default-state-class, need to override font-weight (5491)
• Fixed: Change event doesn't provide selected item (5490)
• Fixed: Refactor menu rendering for more customizing (5188)
• Fixed: Add option to allow form submission when option is chosen (5343)
• Fixed: Menu plugin fires select when border is clicked (5376)
• Fixed: combobox demo look weird in opera 10.50 (5338)
• Fixed: combobox demo doesn't remove invalid values (5453)
• Fixed: combobox demo should use $.ui.autocomplete.escapeRegex (5436)
• Added: demos for multiple values (5c55462, dbc9add)

Datepicker

• Fixed: Spelling of Poniedziałek (5487)
• Fixed: Encoding error in Swiss-French (fr-CH) file (5532)

Dialog

• Fixed: Dialog explicit height doesn't match given value from set option (5392)

Slider

• Fixed: value not aligned to step when set programatically (5471)
• Fixed: event start not cancelable (5472)

Tabs

• Fixed: ui-tabs-panel border override should be border-width, not border (5475)
• Added: demo using cookie option for persistence (af2296b)

CSS Framework

• Fixed: Anchor font color inside ui widget header not theme color (5386)