jQuery team released the much-awaited mobile development framework. Built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI framework, this framework provides a lightweight, progressive enhanced, flexible and themeable foundation for mobile development. Browsing through the features we find that this framework is compatible with all major mobile platforms and browsers, such as: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Palm WebOS, Nokia/Symbian, Windows Mobile, bada, MeeGo, and also provides baseline support for other devices understanding HTML. It’s also very lightweight – just 9k (compressed) and minimal image dependencies, ensuring speed and low data transfer. Progressive enhancement is one of the key features of this framework, bringing core functionality to all mobile, tablet and desktop platforms. It also supports HTML5 data-role attributes, it is accessible and themeable through ThemeRoller, to provide easy to build, highly-branded experience.
Below you can find the mobile support matrix (using the grading system for progressive enhancements):
The framework provides also a powerful set of components: pages & dialogs, toolbars, buttons, content formatting, form elements and list views.
I recommend also you start reading the jQuery Mobile API. Did someone built any demos using this framework? Care to share?
