Hi everybody. For anyone still pondering this, there is a fantastic guide here:
I used it to create all sorts of tabbed widgets on my site. One thing to remember is that if you use more than one set of tabs on a page, you need to add the tabset names to your sprinkle.js file. This will make more sense if you check out the tutorial, of course. I have three sets of tabs on my page (each with three or four tabs), and so my sprinkle.js file looks like this:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#recentposts> ul').tabs({ fx: { height: 'toggle', opacity: 'toggle' } });
$('#archives > ul').tabs({ fx: { height: 'toggle', opacity: 'toggle' } });
$('#featuredvid > ul').tabs();
});
Hope that helps. It made it very easy for me!