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Creating Mobile Version for Your Backbone.js App using jQuery Mobile

• tbassetto 14y ago
  jQuery Mobile, Backbone & Bootstrap for a mobile app? It makes me dizzy just thinking about the amount of code the mobile phone will have to download/execute.
  • knowtheory 14y ago
    Oh? Backbone is 18k minified (uncompressed) Underscore is 13k minified (uncompressed) Bootstrap's js is 20k minified (uncompressed) jQuery minified is ~32k minified & compressed and jQuery Mobile the heaviest of the lot is ~81kb minified & compressed. So how dizzy does that make you?
  • gnufied 14y ago
    What do you propose? I for one cheer for anyone who is out there supporting Mobile Web. Try the app btw, it works quite well on my Incredible S.
    • y0ghur7_xxx 14y ago
      > What do you propose? jqMobi is imho the better alternative[1] for single page mobile JS apps at the moment. But not because of the size, but because it works better. [1]http://s2.diffuse.it/blog/show/14823-Mobile_HTML_Frameworks_that_work_with_PhoneGap http://s2.diffuse.it/blog/show/14823-Mobile_HTML_Frameworks_...
      • gnufied 14y ago
        Interesting comparison. Thanks for linking it. I am not the developer of SupportBee app, but the comparison is useful nonetheless.
• y0ghur7_xxx 14y ago
  Last time I checked jQuery Mobile transitions worked only on iOS. If this is still the case, it's not usable for cross platform mobile web apps.
  • prateekdayal 14y ago
    It works pretty well on Android too. We tested both on iPhone and a few androids (lower end/higher end). It might work on other phones too but we did not test it out.