We’ve been looking forward to the release of jQuery Mobile ever since it was first announced back in August.
Earlier this week, the development team released Alpha 3 of the library. There have been a number of new things introduced and patched and the demo site is coming together nicely.
According to the release notes, here’s what’s to be expected in the latest build:
- The team made about 480 commits!
- Fixed around 150 bugs
- Created 240 unit tests (almost all are passing in most browsers)
- Refactored and improved our core and navigation plugins in many ways, and improved consistency across plugin APIs
- Increased our A-Grade browser support to include Firefox Mobile (Fennec), Opera Mobile / Mini, and refined our support for iOS, Android, BlackBerry 6, Palm WebOS, and most modern desktop browsers
- Wrapped the jQuery UI datepicker plugin with a touch optimized theme (it’s not included in our build by default)
- Fixed our “fixed” toolbars – Thanks Kin!
- Improved keyboard and general accessibility support on VoiceOver
- Gotten very close to a-grade support for Windows Phone 7 and Nokia (in branches currently)
- Made headway on several feature branches, like history.pushState support (for hash-free URLs), and simulated scrolling
- Made countless other improvements and optimizations
You can view a demo of what’s possible with the framework here and you can checkout more information and grab the latest version from the site.
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