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JQuery Mobile Framework Announced

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Re: JQuery Mobile Framework Announced

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Post by jeresig »

raganwald wrote: post #9
jeresig wrote: post #3

To preempt a few questions that are bound to pop up: What about jQTouch? While jQTouch is a great framework and we're proud to have it as part of the jQuery community - we really wanted a mobile framework to exist that would truly support all the mobile platforms out there. We chatted with the jQTouch team and there wasn't really any interest on their end to head in that direction. It's obviously going to be a ton of…

While I laud your transparency, I lament the chilling effect this will have on existing libraries like JQTouch. jQuery Mobile isn't available today but this announcement will make a lot of people sit on their hands waiting to see how things play out in the hope that they won't invest in a dead-end platform. Oh well, not saying you shouldn't have chosen this path, just pointing out the consequences...

jQTouch has been out for a couple years at this point - a two month "chill" period before release seems totally appropriate.

Honestly, I don't see the "chill" as being a bad thing in this regard: jQTouch and Sencha Touch are doing mobile web development a great disservice by only supporting the latest-and-greatest WebKit platforms. If we can get developers to actually think about supporting more of the mobile platforms that are actually used then I will consider the project to be a victory.

I discuss this much more in our strategy outline: http://jquerymobile.com/strategy/

Re: JQuery Mobile Framework Announced

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Post by jeresig »

jmtame wrote: post #10
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #7

This is very exciting news, especially knowing that this significantly better-looking theme is coming to desktop JQuery UI. One of my biggest issues with JQuery UI has always been how goofy it looks in comparison to Aristo and Ace ( http://www.antipode.ca/2009/themes-sproutcore-vs-cappuccino/ )

the mobile ui elements the jquery team is building is the best i've seen so far. they've done a spectacular job there. i hope that as with jquery themeroller, the ui elements for mobile will be customizable.

Yep - they're going to be 100% Themeroller-able. It's going to be a bunch of work on our end but the ability to have a unified, good-looking, UI that works across all platforms is just too enticing to ignore.

Re: JQuery Mobile Framework Announced

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Post by lyime »

This is great news. I have been working on a client project for a company to replicate the iPhone App Store in webkit (enterprisey)

I have basically had to roll out my own framework with the help of jQtouch and jQuery. It's been a struggle to say the least, especially while trying to recreate some of the UI interactions such as the elastic scroll and animated slides.

Looking forward to contributing to this project.

Re: JQuery Mobile Framework Announced

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Post by [deleted] »

raganwald wrote: post #9
jeresig wrote: post #3

To preempt a few questions that are bound to pop up: What about jQTouch? While jQTouch is a great framework and we're proud to have it as part of the jQuery community - we really wanted a mobile framework to exist that would truly support all the mobile platforms out there. We chatted with the jQTouch team and there wasn't really any interest on their end to head in that direction. It's obviously going to be a ton of…

While I laud your transparency, I lament the chilling effect this will have on existing libraries like JQTouch. jQuery Mobile isn't available today but this announcement will make a lot of people sit on their hands waiting to see how things play out in the hope that they won't invest in a dead-end platform. Oh well, not saying you shouldn't have chosen this path, just pointing out the consequences...

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Re: JQuery Mobile Framework Announced

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Post by voidfiles »

raganwald wrote: post #9
jeresig wrote: post #3

To preempt a few questions that are bound to pop up: What about jQTouch? While jQTouch is a great framework and we're proud to have it as part of the jQuery community - we really wanted a mobile framework to exist that would truly support all the mobile platforms out there. We chatted with the jQTouch team and there wasn't really any interest on their end to head in that direction. It's obviously going to be a ton of…

While I laud your transparency, I lament the chilling effect this will have on existing libraries like JQTouch. jQuery Mobile isn't available today but this announcement will make a lot of people sit on their hands waiting to see how things play out in the hope that they won't invest in a dead-end platform. Oh well, not saying you shouldn't have chosen this path, just pointing out the consequences...

Besides what jresig has already said, it's okay for there to be many answers to the same question. It's just like having two open source rendering engines, at least, Mozilla, and Webkit, that don't cannibalize one another. I don't think two approaches to mobile using jQuery will cannibalize one another.

Re: JQuery Mobile Framework Announced

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Post by mortenjorck »

jsdalton wrote: post #16

The initial designs look outstanding: http://jquerymobile.com/designs/

A bit of iOS's proportions, a bit of WebOS's textures, a bit of Android's color – yet they've managed to keep it looking clean and unified instead of middling or compromised. Outstanding indeed.
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