title: Is jQuery UI Widget library there to enable developers to extend jQuery UI?
body: <p>Is jQuery UI Widget library there to enable developers to extend jQuery UI or just to help write jQuery plug-ins. The reason I ask is because there is a great UI Widget tutorial <a href="http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/coding-your-first-jquery-ui-plugin" rel="nofollow">here</a> by Dan Wellman and I couldn’t help thinking that I could have done the same thing, quicker and easier without using the widget library. Just a plain old jQuery plug-in pattern. Well, maybe not quicker.</p>