Flowdock releases mobile UX implemented with jQuery Mobile

I want this to hit the main branch before it goes beta:

http://jquerymobile.com/test/experiments/scrollview/

Without it, you can't have static header and footer bars (the fading ones currently implemented by the framework are crap compared to Sencha and GMail's nice navbars).

I noticed that Khan Academy's mobile app (http://khanapp.com) uses the exerimental ScrollView component with jQuery Mobile. I'm currently trying to get it working myself, with somewhat mixed results (expect to do quite a bit of hackery).

I have just started working on a mobile component and experimented a bit with jquery mobile this week.

The good: syncing an experience cross mobile browser is difficult, and jquery mobile gives you a nice framework to do it.

The bad: The framework is somewhat prescriptive/heavy weight. It's not super easy to style, and it's not super easy to go outside it's boundaries.

The ugly: while I doubt many people will have this issue, I simply could not get it to work at all (obscure jquery bug).

My overall read of it was the same as you: very nice but not ready for prime time.

From what we've seen, the so-far implemented parts in jQuery Mobile work great in a majority of the mobile browsers. I think the prolonged alpha stage is mostly due to their extremely ambitious browser support goals http://jquerymobile.com/gbs/ and relatively vast feature pool. But, as I said, the stuff that has been implemented, is really stable in mainstream browsers (at least iOS/Android).