Background Information

(story partially copied from http://www.fyneworks.com)

• It all started with Will Stuckey's jQuery Star Rating Super Interface!
• The original then became the inspiration for Ritesh Agrawal's Simple Star Rating System, which allows for a GMail like star/un-star toggle.
• This was followed by several spin-offs... (one of which is the Half-star rating plugin)
• Then someone at PHPLetter.com modified the plugin to overcome the issues - then plugin was now based on standard form elements, meaning the interface would still work with Javascript disabled making it beautifully downgradable.
• However, the code was limited to have only one star rating control per page, so Diego A came up with a solution called Star Rating Plugin.
• Unfortunately, it wasn't possible to interact with this plugin programatically, like disabling or selecting the stars to a given value. In the meantime, the jQuery UI 1.5 has been arrived with an amazing "core" lib, which shorten the proccess of creating new widgets. The rest of the story is what you see on this site...