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Mobile Web jQuery And HTML5 Frameworks for Web Developers

• mintusingh 15y ago
  useful collection ...
• taskstrike 15y ago
  This article was a fail in that it failed to mention sencha touch which is the no brainer choice in this space. Jquery mobile comes second after this.
  • Jacob4u2 15y ago
    That's an interesting opinion. How do you feel about the fact that Sencha touch requires the purchase of a license for a commercial app whereas jQuery Mobile does not? IMO that makes jQuery a more attractive choice. However, I will agree that the article was a bit jQuery heavy; several of the options presented were extensions of jQuery Mobile.
    • taskstrike 15y ago
      It does not now. Sencha updated their commercial license to be free.
• tsunamifury 15y ago
  Can someone concisely explain to me the benefits of a very javascript heavy way to build your mobile app like Sencha-touch over the more HTML5/CSS based way of jQuery Mobile and Bootstrap? Also I'm confused why this article failed to mention two of these frameworks
• marknutter 15y ago
  I've been doing a lot of research over the past week on all the solutions out there because I'm building a phonegap based html5 app. My goal is to make it as native feeling as possible. The closest to that experience comes from Sencha Touch and Spine.js mobile. However, what I have found is that doing things from scratch is really the best way to get as close to native as possible. Sencha touch is a bit heavy and you have to do things their way, and there's a bit of a learning curve (not to mention it doesn't mesh well with a lot of the javascript MVC-style frameworks out there). That said, it really is the most complete, best performant option out there.
• dillon 15y ago
  I feel like Bootstrap should be added to this list. The included CSS and Javascript is amazing and makes development incredibly easy.