jQuery Mobile

jQuery Mobile

Developer(s)	The jQuery Project
Stable release	1.0b2 / August 3, 2011 (2011-08-03)
Repository	github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile
Written in	JavaScript
Size	19KB (production mode) / 130KB (development mode)
Type	Mobile application framework
License	Dual license: GPL or MIT
Website	jquerymobile.com

jQuery Mobile is a touch-optimized web framework (additionally known as a JavaScript library or a mobile framework) currently being developed by the jQuery project team. The development focuses on creating a framework compatible with a wide variety of smartphones and tablets, made necessary by the growing-but-heterogenous tablet and smartphone market.

Example usage

$('div').live('tap', function(event){
  alert('You touched the element');
});

Mobile browser support

Platform

Version

Native

Opera Mobile

Opera Mini

Fennec

Ozone

Netfront

Phonegap

8.5

8.65

9.5

10.0

4.0

5.0

1.0

1.1

0.9

4.0

0.9

iOS

v2.2.1

B

A

v3.1.3, v3.2

A

A

A

v4.0

A

A

A

Symbian S60

v3.1, v3.2

C

C

C

B

C

B

C

C

v5.0

A

C

C

A

C

A

A

Symbian UIQ

v3.0, v3.1

C

C

v3.2

C

C

Symbian Platform

v.3.0

A

BlackBerry OS

v4.5

C

C

C

v4.6, v4.7

C

C

B

C

v5.0

B

C

A

A

v6.0

A

A

A

Android

v1.5, v1.6

A

A

v2.1

A

A

v2.2

A

A

C

A

A

Windows Mobile

v6.1

C

C

C

C

B

C

B

C

v6.5.1

C

C

C

A

A

C

A

v7.0

A

A

C

A

webOS

1.4.1

A

A

bada

1.0

A

Maemo

5.0

B

B

C

B

Meego

1.1

A

A

A

Key:

• A - High Quality. A browser that’s capable of, at minimum, utilizing media queries (a requirement for jQuery Mobile). These browsers will be actively tested against, but may not receive the full capabilities of jQuery Mobile.
• B - Medium Quality. A capable browser that doesn’t have enough market share to warrant day-to-day testing. Bug fixes will still be applied to help these browsers.
• C - Low Quality. A browser that is not capable of utilizing media queries. They will not be provided any jQuery Mobile scripting or CSS (falling back to plain HTML and simple CSS).
• Upcoming browser. This browser is not yet released but is in alpha/beta testing.

(Source: from the jQuery Mobile website)

Release history

Release date	Version number
October 26 2010	1.0a1
November 12, 2010	1.0a2
February 4 2011	1.0a3
March 31 2011	1.0a4
April 7 2011	1.0a4.1
June 20 2011	1.0b1
August 3 2011	1.0b2

External links

• The jQuery Project
• Official website
• jQuery Mobile documentation and demo

See also

• jQuery
• Content adaptation