Beautiful Web UI libraries

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Has anyone used these Web UI Frameworks on top of the Web Dev frameworks like Ruby/Rails or Django etc ? How ? Links ?

Thanks.

I've used YUI (just the Rich Text Editor) with Rails. There's nothing to it but a javascript includes and a quick function call.

Customization requires some tricky config - something I didn't find straightforward or easy - but in the end it served my need and did the job.

They need to take the worthless "Write a java app, we'll output in ajax for you!" ones of the list. They're the wrong way to solve the problem. The web isn't a desktop app, you'll never get anywhere trying to treat it like one.

I really don't like the idea of running java in the browser like IT Toolkit does.

I feel like many of the uses of "RIA" technologies (Java, Flex/Flash, Silverlight) are superfluous bling. Hell, a Flex app is all ActionScript anyway, why bother moving from one ECMAscript implementation to another when the one works fine natively in the browser, and the other requires a client download?

Does anyone use MochaUI in production ? It looks very interesting.

It really bugs me that extjs is never on these types of lists. It blows the competition out of the water!

ExtJS is pretty good, but it's not as awesome as it might appear at first. As soon as you try to step outside the its features you're in for some adventures. For example IIRC there is no way to reorder tabs.

You're absolutely right! I was looking for an editable grid in all of these kits and the best one was in extjs: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/grid/edit-grid.html

The only other decent grid editor I know is: http://trirand.com/jqgrid/jqgrid.html

Also missing from this list is the http://ui.jquery.com/

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