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My biggest concern is what happens to jQTouch as a result of this acquisition. Will it continue to sit on jQuery or will they switch it to ExtJS?
by sant0sk1 16y ago
My biggest concern is what happens to jQTouch as a result of this acquisition. Will it continue to sit on jQuery or will they switch it to ExtJS?
- jeresig 16y agoIt's a concern of ours (the jQuery Project) as well. We've been actively working on mobile over the last couple months (mostly getting jQuery core in a better state with regards to supporting more mobile platforms). We see one major gap in the market though: The lack of any sort of UI framework tailored towards cross-browser mobile development (frameworks like jQTouch and iUI both primarily target the iPhone and replicate an iPhone-like experience). Having jQuery core capable of supporting all major mobile platforms will make it much easier to develop a mobile UI framework specifically tailored to the smaller screen sizes. Either way, jQTouch is an incredibly popular jQuery plugin - and since it's MIT licensed - we'll do everything we can to make sure that a copy that runs on jQuery will exist in the long term (either by providing an alternative set of tools or by making sure that a jQuery-using version of jQTouch has a good, well-maintained, home).
- ntulip 16y agoit won't switch to ExtJS unless it gets trimmed down to like 40kb. It won't. I think this is just a diversification for ExtJS since other frameworks are doing UI components now (jQuery UI will catch up to it soon)
- erlanger 16y ago> (jQuery UI will catch up to it soon) I seriously doubt that. jQuery UI is a hack compared to ExtJS.