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The demo is laggy on my iPhone 4. The "fixed" header and footer don't stay fixed when scrolling; they only jump back in to position after the scroll ends, feels
by 54mf 14y ago
The demo is laggy on my iPhone 4. The "fixed" header and footer don't stay fixed when scrolling; they only jump back in to position after the scroll ends, feels like a pre-iOS 5 Javascript hack. None of the navigation seems to work.
Maybe the experience really is better in an IE browser (never thought I'd say those words), but I highly doubt it. I haven't known any browser - Windows Phone or Android - to handle HTML/CSS/JS better than iOS, so I'd be really surprised. I'm going to be attending a Windows Phone demo event thing this week, will test the demo on a Lumia 900 there and see how it runs.
I really like Metro, and want Windows Phone to succeed (more competition is always a good thing), but this feels like a miss to me. Cordova/PhoneGap support is a big deal, and a great pursuit on their part, but as far as I'm concerned jQuery Mobile should be taken out back behind the barn. It looks cheap and performs horribly, and it gives mobile sites and apps a bad reputation.
- untog 14y agoThey may have used MS-specific CSS prefixes- it seems like its designed for Windows Phones only. If anything it would be a favour to WP users- people are STILL only using WebKit prefixes these days.
- 54mf 14y agoI checked the theme CSS (http://sgrebnov.github.com/jqmobile-metro-theme/samples/jqm-public-demo/css/metro/jquery.mobile.metro.theme.css http://sgrebnov.github.com/jqmobile-metro-theme/samples/jqm-...) and it doesn't look like they are. I wish they had. Interestingly enough, there are a ton of moz- and webkit- animations in the theme, but I don't see anything IE-specific. Left in from a theme template, presumably, but still kind of funny.
- josephcooney 14y agoI just tried it on my Lumia 800, and it wasn't that great there either (especially the 'fixed' header and footer, which seems to behave just as you describe).
- 54mf 14y agoUgh. I was afraid of that. Less time on JQM themes and more time on modern CSS support would be so, so much more beneficial in the long run, both for users and for developers.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoIE10 has much better CSS support. It's just not released yet. I don't know why people keep complaining about this, though.
- josephcooney 14y agomaybe it only works properly in phonegap. Some of the widgets like the switch and slider didn't work for me either in IE.
- 54mf 14y agoDoesn't look like that either. There is a Cordova check in JS at the bottom ("// allows to use the page in NON cordova environment") but the files it includes for Cordova appear to be trivial. Theme interaction and switchers and the like.
- jsdalton 14y agoSounds like it's jQuery Mobile that's the problem, and not Microsoft's particular implementation of the theme. I described almost the exact same behavior as you the last two times I demoed it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3248469 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3248469 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2178318 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2178318