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Poll: What mobile HTML5 framework do you use?

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Re: Poll: What mobile HTML5 framework do you use?

#23

Phonegap and Titanium are different things from jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch, which are slightly different form jQTouch. Want to build a complex app that could run on iOS, Android and Windows Mobile with no(t much) fuss? Don't like writing HTML or CSS by hand but enjoy writing JavaScript MVC stuff and fancy learning new stuff? Go with Sencha. Want to build a nice mobile interface for a website but you need your ver…

I've used jQuery Mobile + Phonegap a few times now, and it's a pretty solid combo.

Re: Poll: What mobile HTML5 framework do you use?

#26
Why not include an option for people who don't use a framework? It'd be nice to get a perspective on the portion of developers who are rolling their own mobile webapp.

With mobile web development, the frameworks add needless complication and bloat. All the successful good-looking mobile webapps I've used (Twitter, FB, etc.) don't use any of these frameworks.

Re: Poll: What mobile HTML5 framework do you use?

#29
We've been building up on Sencha Touch 2 since the first PR. It was hard to convince devs on team to make this choice. It takes some time to get into Sencha way, being familiar with ExtJS helps. Some benefits -

* a faster development process once you're clear on the concepts

* along with conventions, a lot of configuration is possible

* the new class system makes it easy to build custom UI components and write maintainable code

* the new class system combined with jsbuilder/sdk tools helps you produce minimal js.

* many well done examples

* ComponentView and DataViews are kickass. saves many lines of code that you might have written for updating views otherwise

* many types of eventful data stores, and they talk REST out of the box!

* great performance on iOS in general

* our customers needed a lot of theming - we build our theming system on top of sencha's sass work. rolling out new looks = 10 lines of change for us :)

* free :)

Re: Poll: What mobile HTML5 framework do you use?

#30
I've been playing with the new Trigger.io framework and really like it so far. Simple and very fast command line build tools (a new build takes around a second) and a decent JS API for native functionality. It creates desktop browser plugins from the same codebase - a nice bonus and useful for debugging purposes too. YCombinator funded and believe pg has a personal investment.
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