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JQuery Mobile Beta 1 Released | jQuery Mobile

88 points by sant0sk1 15y ago

karanbhangui 15y ago
awesome job guys, it's improved a lot!
- jjm 15y ago
  Yeah, it has gotten much better in the last two months!
WrkInProgress 15y ago
Still a bit jarring/jerky when it comes to specific transitions but it's fantastic work for a Beta, and they've come a long way in a short time. Looking forward to hopefully Android 3.0 support.
Raphael 15y ago
Animations are slow, but I like the look when it's not moving.
njl 15y ago
I built http://spotwoo.com http://spotwoo.com in a couple of days using jQuery Mobile. Some weird gotchas, but I really enjoyed how quickly I could make something that looked decent. Congrats to the jQuery Mobile team. I've got a couple of clients who've been mumbling about needing mobile apps, and I'm probably going to steer them to jQuery Mobile instead.
- enjo 15y ago
  What's the target for that? It's pretty unusable on my android (incredible) phone. Looks interesting tho!
  - njl 15y ago
    It's passable on my OG Droid. It was a weekend hack, and I need to revisit it with an eye towards speeding things up. Overuse of the Google Maps Javascript API is probably the source of a lot of the pokiness...
    - trezor 15y ago
      As an Android-user, web-apps which seems made to mimick the iPhone-look really turns me off (and I say that as a former iPhone-user). Aesthetic nitpicking aside, it doesn't work very well on my Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000, international model) running CM7. The rendered page is wider than the actual screen and you are not allowed to scroll sideways to see what you are missing. Once logged in, scrolling vertically causes a full page-update and then all of a sudden the screen-width has adapted. It definitely feels clunky and a bit ... slow, even on what should be a reasonably powerful phone. Hopefully some of these are issues which can be fixed. Seems like a useful enough service otherwise.
hxf148 15y ago
Keep up the great work. We are looking at jQuery Mobile for http://infostripe.com http://infostripe.com and am impressed by this update.
CoffeeDregs 15y ago
Gotta love any useful-awesome-open-source technology, but I'd also love to ask the following question: how does this differ from Sencha Touch? Is it library versus framework? Obviously, I know the two differ, but I'm not sure of the benefits of jQuery Mobile (besides developer mindshare (which is nothing to be sneezed at)). I use jQuery lots in (clients') smart websites and I use ExtJS/SenchaTouch for RIAs. Is that breakdown still valid? Has jQuery Mobile become a consistent, unified development platform for RIAs? Or is jQueryMobile an awesome mobile Javascript library? Or am I missing some greater point? (<- likely)
- angryasian 15y ago
  this biggest issues is the licensing with Sencha/Extjs vs jquery mobile. I would stick with jquery to be safe or understand your product and hopefully any future uses of your product. They had issues in the past. http://pablotron.org/?cid=1556 http://pablotron.org/?cid=1556 - old but relevant.
- deleted 15y ago
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- sylvinus 15y ago
  Biggest difference is that Sencha basically creates the DOM for you whereas jQuery still needs existing <ul>/<li>s to enhance. Also Sencha Touch is quite fatter than jQuery mobile.
gcb 15y ago
imho, they are going the wrong way. the feeling they pass is that 99% of the work is to hide the url bar with convoluted ajax hooks. Just adds programming complexity and bugs. On dolphin browser (most common android one) you see the url bar all the time, unless you are on desktop mode. go figure. I love the work they did on the styling though. Use for the all my mobile sites.
- john-n 15y ago
  > On dolphin browser (most common android one) More common than the default android browser? Would be curious to see any figures on this.
gspyrou 15y ago
jQuery Mobile + PhoneGap was used for developing Athens Airport Info for Android https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.plusapps.athens.airport https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.plusapps.athens.air...
rushabh 15y ago
Great job - I didn't like the ajax spinner in the central overlay - a facebook like ajax indicator on the element that was clicked would be cool.
aqrashik 15y ago
I've built a webapp for designing websites in jQuery Mobile at http://www.mobjectify.com http://www.mobjectify.com If you're using or evaluating jQM for a project, I would love to get feedback about how useful the tool would be to you.
- p0larboy 15y ago
  great job with the interface.. I can see myself doing some quick mock-up for my client using this tool..
  - aqrashik 15y ago
    Thanks
- ttrashh 15y ago
  Nice work. I can definitely see myself using this.
peram 15y ago
Its a great platform but I am still finding the animations to be slow and buttons to be a little less responsive, particularly on the blackberrry platform but also on the iOS platform. This is forcing me to explore Sencha Touch. I would rather stick to jQuery mobile (for simplicity) than learn a new framework. Hopefully when its out of beta?
dgeb 15y ago
I used jQuery Mobile to build the mobile web interface for http://IOUmate.com http://IOUmate.com because I really like the general approach jQM is taking. It allows you to build a mobile view to a web app instead of creating a separate, monolithic mobile app. jQM makes it easy to provide device-optimized views for URLs instead of requiring custom URLs for different devices. This makes all the difference for an app like I.O.U. Mate which sends out notification emails with plenty of links to different resources (in our case, friends and IOUs). These links just work (without redirects) whether they're opened from a desktop or mobile mail client. I'm looking forward to upgrading I.O.U. Mate to jQM beta very soon, since there have definitely been a few rough spots with page transitions and navigation. However, I'm very impressed with the progress that's been made with each release and the overall direction of the project. Nice work, jQM team!
dsharp 15y ago
JQuery Mobile is amazing. Great work guys! D Sharp Diabetes will be launching soon using JQM. http://dsharpdiabetes.com http://dsharpdiabetes.com
hopeless 15y ago
It looks like an improvement over the alpha but it's still pretty horrible to use on iOS + iPhone 4: Click a link... loading message appears. Wait. Loading message disappears. Pause. View scrolls to the top. User is now totally lost & confused. Has the new page loaded? Pause. View now slides over to the new page. Page wobbles around if like me you were scrolling around the previous view to try and understand where you were. I did this 3-4 times before I gave up exploring the demo site. Based on the demo sites alone, Sencha Touch is still the outright winner in terms of end-user experience. Which is a little unfortunate because I might prefer JQuery for both desktop and mobile-optimised sites
- va_coder 15y ago
  I agree. But time is on their side. The mobile OSes and browsers on them will only get faster over time.

88 points by sant0sk1 15y ago

karanbhangui 15y ago

awesome job guys, it's improved a lot!

jjm 15y ago
Yeah, it has gotten much better in the last two months!

WrkInProgress 15y ago

Still a bit jarring/jerky when it comes to specific transitions but it's fantastic work for a Beta, and they've come a long way in a short time. Looking forward to hopefully Android 3.0 support.

Raphael 15y ago

Animations are slow, but I like the look when it's not moving.

njl 15y ago

I built http://spotwoo.com http://spotwoo.com in a couple of days using jQuery Mobile. Some weird gotchas, but I really enjoyed how quickly I could make something that looked decent. Congrats to the jQuery Mobile team. I've got a couple of clients who've been mumbling about needing mobile apps, and I'm probably going to steer them to jQuery Mobile instead.

enjo 15y ago
What's the target for that? It's pretty unusable on my android (incredible) phone. Looks interesting tho!
- njl 15y ago
  It's passable on my OG Droid. It was a weekend hack, and I need to revisit it with an eye towards speeding things up. Overuse of the Google Maps Javascript API is probably the source of a lot of the pokiness...
  - trezor 15y ago
    As an Android-user, web-apps which seems made to mimick the iPhone-look really turns me off (and I say that as a former iPhone-user). Aesthetic nitpicking aside, it doesn't work very well on my Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000, international model) running CM7. The rendered page is wider than the actual screen and you are not allowed to scroll sideways to see what you are missing. Once logged in, scrolling vertically causes a full page-update and then all of a sudden the screen-width has adapted. It definitely feels clunky and a bit ... slow, even on what should be a reasonably powerful phone. Hopefully some of these are issues which can be fixed. Seems like a useful enough service otherwise.

hxf148 15y ago

Keep up the great work. We are looking at jQuery Mobile for http://infostripe.com http://infostripe.com and am impressed by this update.

CoffeeDregs 15y ago

Gotta love any useful-awesome-open-source technology, but I'd also love to ask the following question: how does this differ from Sencha Touch? Is it library versus framework? Obviously, I know the two differ, but I'm not sure of the benefits of jQuery Mobile (besides developer mindshare (which is nothing to be sneezed at)). I use jQuery lots in (clients') smart websites and I use ExtJS/SenchaTouch for RIAs. Is that breakdown still valid? Has jQuery Mobile become a consistent, unified development platform for RIAs? Or is jQueryMobile an awesome mobile Javascript library? Or am I missing some greater point? (<- likely)

angryasian 15y ago
this biggest issues is the licensing with Sencha/Extjs vs jquery mobile. I would stick with jquery to be safe or understand your product and hopefully any future uses of your product. They had issues in the past. http://pablotron.org/?cid=1556 http://pablotron.org/?cid=1556 - old but relevant.
deleted 15y ago
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sylvinus 15y ago
Biggest difference is that Sencha basically creates the DOM for you whereas jQuery still needs existing <ul>/<li>s to enhance. Also Sencha Touch is quite fatter than jQuery mobile.

gcb 15y ago

imho, they are going the wrong way. the feeling they pass is that 99% of the work is to hide the url bar with convoluted ajax hooks. Just adds programming complexity and bugs. On dolphin browser (most common android one) you see the url bar all the time, unless you are on desktop mode. go figure. I love the work they did on the styling though. Use for the all my mobile sites.

john-n 15y ago
> On dolphin browser (most common android one) More common than the default android browser? Would be curious to see any figures on this.

gspyrou 15y ago

jQuery Mobile + PhoneGap was used for developing Athens Airport Info for Android https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.plusapps.athens.airport https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.plusapps.athens.air...

rushabh 15y ago

Great job - I didn't like the ajax spinner in the central overlay - a facebook like ajax indicator on the element that was clicked would be cool.

aqrashik 15y ago

I've built a webapp for designing websites in jQuery Mobile at http://www.mobjectify.com http://www.mobjectify.com If you're using or evaluating jQM for a project, I would love to get feedback about how useful the tool would be to you.

p0larboy 15y ago
great job with the interface.. I can see myself doing some quick mock-up for my client using this tool..
- aqrashik 15y ago
  Thanks
ttrashh 15y ago
Nice work. I can definitely see myself using this.

peram 15y ago

Its a great platform but I am still finding the animations to be slow and buttons to be a little less responsive, particularly on the blackberrry platform but also on the iOS platform. This is forcing me to explore Sencha Touch. I would rather stick to jQuery mobile (for simplicity) than learn a new framework. Hopefully when its out of beta?

dgeb 15y ago

I used jQuery Mobile to build the mobile web interface for http://IOUmate.com http://IOUmate.com because I really like the general approach jQM is taking. It allows you to build a mobile view to a web app instead of creating a separate, monolithic mobile app. jQM makes it easy to provide device-optimized views for URLs instead of requiring custom URLs for different devices. This makes all the difference for an app like I.O.U. Mate which sends out notification emails with plenty of links to different resources (in our case, friends and IOUs). These links just work (without redirects) whether they're opened from a desktop or mobile mail client. I'm looking forward to upgrading I.O.U. Mate to jQM beta very soon, since there have definitely been a few rough spots with page transitions and navigation. However, I'm very impressed with the progress that's been made with each release and the overall direction of the project. Nice work, jQM team!

dsharp 15y ago

JQuery Mobile is amazing. Great work guys! D Sharp Diabetes will be launching soon using JQM. http://dsharpdiabetes.com http://dsharpdiabetes.com

hopeless 15y ago

It looks like an improvement over the alpha but it's still pretty horrible to use on iOS + iPhone 4: Click a link... loading message appears. Wait. Loading message disappears. Pause. View scrolls to the top. User is now totally lost & confused. Has the new page loaded? Pause. View now slides over to the new page. Page wobbles around if like me you were scrolling around the previous view to try and understand where you were. I did this 3-4 times before I gave up exploring the demo site. Based on the demo sites alone, Sencha Touch is still the outright winner in terms of end-user experience. Which is a little unfortunate because I might prefer JQuery for both desktop and mobile-optimised sites

va_coder 15y ago
I agree. But time is on their side. The mobile OSes and browsers on them will only get faster over time.