jQuery Mobile and first impressions
I’ve had a chance to demonstrate jQuery Mobile to my students, which required I looked a bit closer at the library myself. I really like what is going on with it. It seems very easy to understand the basic formatting of the library with its data-role attributes defining the different parts of the page. There is some depth to what you can do with events, which I find interesting as well.
I wish that it didn’t take so long to load. Using my cell phone and T-Mobile’s 3G network, it seems that the pages load quite slowly. I would like to see a bit snappier loading times. One would think if it is targeting mobile, the mobile speeds would also be profiled into its requirements, but perhaps my phone is just slow… (I would happily accept another android/iphone as a donation for my personal testing)
Today we start our project, so I will continue to write on how things are received.