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I built http://spotwoo.com in a couple of days using jQuery Mobile. Some weird gotchas, but I really enjoyed how quickly I could make something that looked decent. Congrats to the jQuery Mobile team.

I've got a couple of clients who've been mumbling about needing mobile apps, and I'm probably going to steer them to jQuery Mobile instead.

What's the target for that? It's pretty unusable on my android (incredible) phone. Looks interesting tho!

It's passable on my OG Droid. It was a weekend hack, and I need to revisit it with an eye towards speeding things up. Overuse of the Google Maps Javascript API is probably the source of a lot of the pokiness...

As an Android-user, web-apps which seems made to mimick the iPhone-look really turns me off (and I say that as a former iPhone-user).

Aesthetic nitpicking aside, it doesn't work very well on my Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000, international model) running CM7. The rendered page is wider than the actual screen and you are not allowed to scroll sideways to see what you are missing.

Once logged in, scrolling vertically causes a full page-update and then all of a sudden the screen-width has adapted. It definitely feels clunky and a bit ... slow, even on what should be a reasonably powerful phone.

Hopefully some of these are issues which can be fixed. Seems like a useful enough service otherwise.

Still a bit jarring/jerky when it comes to specific transitions but it's fantastic work for a Beta, and they've come a long way in a short time.

Looking forward to hopefully Android 3.0 support.

Its a great platform but I am still finding the animations to be slow and buttons to be a little less responsive, particularly on the blackberrry platform but also on the iOS platform. This is forcing me to explore Sencha Touch. I would rather stick to jQuery mobile (for simplicity) than learn a new framework. Hopefully when its out of beta?

Gotta love any useful-awesome-open-source technology, but I'd also love to ask the following question: how does this differ from Sencha Touch? Is it library versus framework?

Obviously, I know the two differ, but I'm not sure of the benefits of jQuery Mobile (besides developer mindshare (which is nothing to be sneezed at)). I use jQuery lots in (clients') smart websites and I use ExtJS/SenchaTouch for RIAs. Is that breakdown still valid? Has jQuery Mobile become a consistent, unified development platform for RIAs? Or is jQueryMobile an awesome mobile Javascript library? Or am I missing some greater point? (<- likely)

this biggest issues is the licensing with Sencha/Extjs vs jquery mobile. I would stick with jquery to be safe or understand your product and hopefully any future uses of your product. They had issues in the past.

http://pablotron.org/?cid=1556 - old but relevant.

I used jQuery Mobile to build the mobile web interface for http://IOUmate.com because I really like the general approach jQM is taking. It allows you to build a mobile view to a web app instead of creating a separate, monolithic mobile app. jQM makes it easy to provide device-optimized views for URLs instead of requiring custom URLs for different devices. This makes all the difference for an app like I.O.U. Mate which sends out notification emails with plenty of links to different resources (in our case, friends and IOUs). These links just work (without redirects) whether they're opened from a desktop or mobile mail client.

I'm looking forward to upgrading I.O.U. Mate to jQM beta very soon, since there have definitely been a few rough spots with page transitions and navigation. However, I'm very impressed with the progress that's been made with each release and the overall direction of the project. Nice work, jQM team!

I've built a webapp for designing websites in jQuery Mobile at http://www.mobjectify.com

If you're using or evaluating jQM for a project, I would love to get feedback about how useful the tool would be to you.

great job with the interface.. I can see myself doing some quick mock-up for my client using this tool..

Thanks

Nice work. I can definitely see myself using this.

It looks like an improvement over the alpha but it's still pretty horrible to use on iOS + iPhone 4:

Click a link... loading message appears. Wait. Loading message disappears. Pause. View scrolls to the top. User is now totally lost & confused. Has the new page loaded? Pause. View now slides over to the new page. Page wobbles around if like me you were scrolling around the previous view to try and understand where you were. I did this 3-4 times before I gave up exploring the demo site.

Based on the demo sites alone, Sencha Touch is still the outright winner in terms of end-user experience. Which is a little unfortunate because I might prefer JQuery for both desktop and mobile-optimised sites

I agree. But time is on their side. The mobile OSes and browsers on them will only get faster over time.

Great job - I didn't like the ajax spinner in the central overlay - a facebook like ajax indicator on the element that was clicked would be cool.

jQuery Mobile + PhoneGap was used for developing Athens Airport Info for Android https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.plusapps.athens.air...

JQuery Mobile is amazing. Great work guys! D Sharp Diabetes will be launching soon using JQM. http://dsharpdiabetes.com

Keep up the great work. We are looking at jQuery Mobile for http://infostripe.com and am impressed by this update.

awesome job guys, it's improved a lot!

Yeah, it has gotten much better in the last two months!

Animations are slow, but I like the look when it's not moving.

imho, they are going the wrong way.

the feeling they pass is that 99% of the work is to hide the url bar with convoluted ajax hooks. Just adds programming complexity and bugs. On dolphin browser (most common android one) you see the url bar all the time, unless you are on desktop mode. go figure.

I love the work they did on the styling though. Use for the all my mobile sites.

> On dolphin browser (most common android one) More common than the default android browser? Would be curious to see any figures on this.

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