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Is "jQuery Mobile" too slow for mobile? Slow tap performance, slow overall performance, http://www.jquerymobile.com http://www.jquerymobile.com Is "jQuery"

by frik 13y ago

Is "jQuery Mobile" too slow for mobile? Slow tap performance, slow overall performance, http://www.jquerymobile.com http://www.jquerymobile.com Is "jQuery" too slow for mobile? Too big, a bit slow. The issue is the compressed file size. It's still huge (81kb) and mobile user will notice if your combined web app JS size goes beyond 200kb (speaking about mobile on Edge network, latency). It also slows down your web app, check out: http://jsperf.com/popular#all-time http://jsperf.com/popular#all-time Do you really need "jQuery" in 2014 on mobile? I would say no. I have recently coded a 30k HTML5 web app that runs on mobile as fast as native apps. So my advice is to just use native HTML5 JS API, it works fine. Introduction: http://www.sitepoint.com/jquery-vs-raw-javascript-1-dom-forms/ http://www.sitepoint.com/jquery-vs-raw-javascript-1-dom-form... Edit: added "on mobile" in the last question

talmand 13y ago
I think that last question needs to be "do you really need jQuery in 2014 on mobile?" If we're talking mobile, then chances are you can do without jQuery. You can almost take for granted that the mobile device has a webkit-based browser. Yes, I say that knowing that there are non-webkit browsers in use and that some browsers are based on older webkit code. If we're talking about non-mobile users across the spectrum of browsers, I would recommend still using jQuery. It's just too useful in dealing with browser inconsistencies and bugs not to use it.