⟩ Is it too early to discuss jQuery UI 1.8?
There's a lot on our list for the year. Filament Group did a great job to start a list of all widgets they could imagine being part of jQuery UI, which can be found and discussed in the jQuery UI planning wiki at http://wiki.jqueryui.com. There's no definite roadmap for 1.8 yet, but some components are likely to make it into the next release. For instance, widgets that are already being worked on (grid, menu), as well as widgets that we had to kick out of 1.6/1.7 because they weren't stable enough (spinner, colorpicker, autocomplete). It will be a huge feature release!