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JQuery set to tackle mobile Web development
Countless developers use jQuery to build software tools today to more advanced Web sites and facilitate the difficulties in multiple browsers.
Starting in about two weeks, but they will be able to begin to expand their reach to the rapidly growing world of mobile Internet as well. That’s when the alpha version of jQuery Mobile is planned to be released, “said founder John Resig jQuery participants in the Future of Web Apps conference here today. JQuery is a library of pre-written JavaScript code to download that browsers can load a website. JQuery Mobile is an additional option to achieve a number of mobile browsers. “We hope to offer simple tools for creating a scalable user interface,” said Resig, a Mozilla staff, in an interview at the conference. In particular, he the alpha version on 16 September with a release of jQuery Conference in Boston hopes, he said. An important objective of the project is more than the top-tier mobile web browsers, how to reach Apple’s IOS, Google’s Android, Hewlett-Packard Web OS used, he said. JQuery will also reach BlackBerry Mobile OS and mobile versions of Windows, he said. Many web developers, if they are all mobile devices support at all only support the iPhone or Android devices, he said. “That is because what is sitting before them. What is regrettable that the major problem is ignored,” he said, pointing at StatCounter web browser usage statistics show that the developers are neglecting their large market. “Opera is the most popular [mobile] browser, followed by BlackBerry, has won an impressive 10 percent usage share points last year, he said. iPhone, however, is tied for third place and losing really know when it comes to overall mobile browsing experience.StatCounter shows increases in importance BlackBerry Mobile Browsing
Mobile web development is obviously different from Programming for browsers on PCs with large screens and hardware. Mobile Web developers should do in these pages to quickly present user to what they take the full range of options that have typically focused on desktop browsers, Resig said.
This, of course, raises the difficulty of separate mobile and PC sites. Resig jQuery Mobile hopes will help to span the gap, though. Resig was the first public demonstration of jQuery Mobile at the conference. The interface operates on the Google Chrome browser for Mac OS X and developer kit versions of BlackBerry OS and web browsers, OS run on his Mac. JQuery Mobile is designed to native technology such as scroll bars to use as much as possible. In contrast, he said, Google tries to JavaScript-based scroll bar with the mobile web version of Gmail, but it worked poorly in part because of the performance. “It all started to feel wrong,” he said. “It was very, very striking. It gives a negative impression.” With jQuery Mobile, “wherever possible, we use the native capabilities of the browser,” he said. A major challenge is the inclusion of the variety of mobile browsers, many of which offer poor support for JavaScript or other useful technologies. jQuery Mobile must therefore work around issues such as operas defects support the increasingly important CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) technology for web page formatting, Resig said.“Unlike on the desktop, there are a lot of really, really bad mobile browsers,” said Resig.
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