Creating Mobile Version for Your Backbone.js App using jQuery Mobile

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15 points·gnufied··7 comments

Last time I checked jQuery Mobile transitions worked only on iOS. If this is still the case, it's not usable for cross platform mobile web apps.

It works pretty well on Android too. We tested both on iPhone and a few androids (lower end/higher end). It might work on other phones too but we did not test it out.

jQuery Mobile, Backbone & Bootstrap for a mobile app? It makes me dizzy just thinking about the amount of code the mobile phone will have to download/execute.

Oh?

Backbone is 18k minified (uncompressed)

Underscore is 13k minified (uncompressed)

Bootstrap's js is 20k minified (uncompressed)

jQuery minified is ~32k minified & compressed

and jQuery Mobile the heaviest of the lot is ~81kb minified & compressed.

So how dizzy does that make you?

What do you propose? I for one cheer for anyone who is out there supporting Mobile Web. Try the app btw, it works quite well on my Incredible S.

> What do you propose?

jqMobi is imho the better alternative[1] for single page mobile JS apps at the moment. But not because of the size, but because it works better.

[1]http://s2.diffuse.it/blog/show/14823-Mobile_HTML_Frameworks_...

Interesting comparison. Thanks for linking it. I am not the developer of SupportBee app, but the comparison is useful nonetheless.

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