It looks great - in theory - but for some reason the performance seems to be dismal. I put together a site using an older version of jqmobile about a year ago and was impressed how smooth and quick the widgets worked, even on a 1G iPad.
I just went through the demo site on my iPad 3 and it just seems terrible - slow, improper rendering on a bunch of elements, stuttering transitions, etc.
Is anyone else finding this? Perhaps something is amiss on my iPad, but my impression is not great so far...
An older version of jqmobile used some kind of FastClick technique, but it was causing too many compatibility issues on android devices. Projects like these need to strike a fine balance between usability and device-awareness, but there are a number of exposed options in the library where you can optimize for specific devices.
I don't have experience with jquery mobile - but dojox.mobile from dojotoolkit gave me some very nice results and i've built some nicely performing applications with it. You might want to look into that.
I just went through the demo site on my iPad 3 and it just seems terrible - slow, improper rendering on a bunch of elements, stuttering transitions, etc.
Is anyone else finding this? Perhaps something is amiss on my iPad, but my impression is not great so far...