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I've been working with jQuery Mobile for a week now and it's pretty cool just how quick you can get an app up and running...and most importantly looking great.
by bluedevil2k 16y ago
I've been working with jQuery Mobile for a week now and it's pretty cool just how quick you can get an app up and running...and most importantly looking great. Granted that's mostly to do with their CSS files. However, I really like how they designed their page navigations - in effect, the app acts as a browser within the browser and animates transitions between pages, auto-generates back buttons, lets you put footers with persistent buttons, all that stuff you've grown used to on phone apps.
As people have pointed out here, you can probably create 80% of the apps that your client would request with it and other HTML5 tools, rather than writing native code. Added bonus, it will run on iOS, Android, WebOS, and likely in the future Windows Phone 7.
- marcusbooster 16y agoI've also been using jq-mobile, and for the most part I like it, though you can still tell it's an immature project. Most recently I found that I was unable to pass url parameters to a page, which is a pretty big deal for a web app. I'm sure this will be fixed in the future, but it's the kind of things early adapters will have to deal with.
- kaylarose 16y ago"Granted that's mostly to do with their CSS files." I think that will be the #1 contributor to jQuery Mobile's inevitable success. It is just so easy to get working prototypes without having to mess with CSS or anything. Everything is taken care of for you, in a very convention-over-configuration way. I recently built a mobile version of a HUGE web app in 2 days using jQuery mobile. Compared to the earlier mobile prototypes using jQTouch and Sencha Touch that took a month+.
- madhancr 16y agoI consider Sencha touch to be currently much better than jquery mobile. Just wanted to mentioned it here.