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JQuery Mobile Alpha 2 Released

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Trying the demos on both a Galaxy S and an iPad, I'm struck by how slow everything feels. Buttons don't react when you press them, but a second later, which isn't acceptable when you're competing with native applications. However, it looks good and they have time to fix the speed issues. I might look into using this instead of something heavier, like sproutcore.

Their demo seems to be loading content from the internet when you click a "stuff >" button. That's a terrible metaphor to use, since the expectation when hitting a button like that is instant feedback. Had they left links looking like links, you would expect a delay while loading and therefore not be disappointed.

To make it worse, putting the "loading" dialog up actually makes the operation seem slower. If I was building a site using this library, that's the first thing I'd figure out how to disable.

looking at the api, you can also do a number of "pages" within a single html page, and just have it cycle through those when you click links (much like jqtouch worked).

While it is kind of slow to load each page with ajax, I do like that they have made that easy to implement, as it was rather difficult to do with jqtouch.

We considered the Alpha 1 release feature complete. The goal now is to work on optimization of the code to make things run more smoothly. Alpha 2 fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements. Still much to do.

Thanks for your feedback.

I've been using this since the hour it was released, and colour me impressed; the jquery team works _fast_. The amount of improvements in this release are astounding. great work guys!

I coded my first JQuery app (www.quaverly.com) using JQuery Mobile last weekend. It was ridiculous how little time it took to make something look semi-presentable--it would have taken me maybe a week to code the equivalent in GWT, and it wouldn't have looked as nice, either!

It doesn't seem to working for my Blackberry Bold. I see only the plain HTML text.

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