JQuery Tools vs jQuery UI

This is about jQuery Tools that were linked a few days ago from HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=640479

Actually the comments are more interesting and noteworthy than the article itself.

Also the author of jQuery Tools responds in the comments.

Its an interesting discourse. I'm not against people designing alternative solutions when they find the defacto standard is lacking (jQuery UI). The benefit of having a standard "batteries included" solution can't be denied either, look at the ease of adoption of Python or Rails. I think the biggest concern isn't that jQuery Tools offers a different library, its that it goes about doing it in non-jQuery ways.

I think that if jQuery Tools works for you fine, but ultimately this functionality should be subsumed within jQuery UI so that there is a single repository for UI elements.

jQuery UI has done a lot of work in standardizing and componentizing their library, this functionality should be integrated with the UI canon. Then when I want to have functionality only offered by jQuery UI and functionality only offered by jQuery Tools I can use them in harmony, and that includes the nice extras like themerolling.

These guys need javascript to do tabs? wow!

I'm doing tabs with plain html and CSS; am I an idiot who is missing something, or am I some kind of pioneer who owes the world a few alistapart articles? ;-)