jQuery Mobile is a handy JavaScript framework that makes it easy for you to build mobile web apps and mobile-friendly websites. jQuery Mobile 1.3 came out last week, and it has all sorts of lovely new features and improvements over 1.2. In this article you’ll get an overview of these changes, and see how to use jQuery Mobile 1.3 to enhance your websites and web apps even further.
You’ll look at:
- Responsive web design improvements
- Responsive grids
- Two types of responsive tables for displaying data
- A new panel widget
- Improvements to range sliders and other form fields
- A new
navigatemethod and event for easy history manipulation - A new easy way to build autocomplete listviews
- New options for dialogs and popups
- Two new icons, as well as other icon improvements, and
- A few miscellaneous enhancements to the framework and documentation.
We’ll start by taking a look at the concept of responsive web design, and see how jQuery Mobile 1.3 makes it easier than ever to build responsive webpages.