Free Event: Evening of jQuery Mobile

[Marc Grabanski]

Evening of jQuery Mobile, Oct 13th 7-9PM at The Nerdery in Bloomington.

Registration: http://eveningof.eventbrite.com/

It's free, so come on down. =)

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Marc Grabanski

[Kevin Whinnery]

Marc has agreed to do a condensed version for our next JavaScriptMN meeting as well - thanks Marc!

-Kevin

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Kevin Whinnery

Developer Relations Manager
Appcelerator Inc.

http://appcelerator.com

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[Chris Barber]

Cool, I'm looking forward to learning about jQuery Mobile from Marc.

What's the difference between jqtouch and jquery mobile anyways?

-Chris

[Ben Damman]

As I understand it, jQtouch is a jQuery plugin that targets webkit whereas jQuery Mobile is a framework (that uses jQuery) that is intended to work on all mobile platforms.

Ben Damman

[Marc Grabanski]

jQTouch is app-like functionality you can run in the iPhone web browser. (maybe some Android browsers too?). It has some cool things for adding the app to the home screen and etc. Much different focus than jQuery Mobile.

jQuery Mobile isn't targeted at "app like" functionality (like Sencha/jQTouch) as much as it is an underlying set of things you need to develop mobile friendly websites and web apps. jQuery Mobile has a PJAX navigation layer, touch friendly inputs and layout and design framework. It is meant to take web content and give it the widest range of distribution at its core.

The project is gearing towards 1.0… so I'd imagine they'd be clearing the marketing stuff up soon so people recognize the project's strengths easier. 

Until then, you can come to my presentation and find out. =)

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Marc Grabanski
MJG International

[Kevin Whinnery]

Totally onboard with the jQuery Mobile approach, which is to make a web app that looks and behaves like a web app and uses progressive enhancement to reach a multitude of clients.  Trying to "fake" native UI in a mobile browser (and only certain high end browsers) is something I don't get, as awesome and impressive as Sencha/jQTouch are.