jQuery Mobile Team Meeting – Nov 29 2012

Attending: Todd Parker, John Bender, Jasper de Groot, Anne-Gaelle Colom, Gabriel Schulhof, Alex Schmitz, Jeff Lembeck, Ralph Whitbeck

link Todd

Good progress on 1.3: 14 open issues / 36 closed - Responsive focus. https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues?direction=desc&milestone=19&sort=updated&state=open
- Sliding panel widget work underway in a branch, will need docs and demos soon
  - panels will also have a responsive element where we could have a demo showing how we could display a panel and hide the open/close button above a certain width
- RWD intro started (very basic): http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/demos/grids/rwd-basics.html
- Responsive grids w/default breakpoint: http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/demos/grids/grid-stack.html
- Responsive tables: http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/tables/index.html
- Clear button option for text inputs: http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/demos/textinput/index.html
- We’ve decided to add a dual handle range slider for 1.3, in progress
Will focus on release notes for 1.1.2 and 1.2.1 this week so we can get those released
Next: new demos site to compliment new API site for 1.3
1.4 is looking like it will be heavy on re-factoring for speed, consistency and performance

textinput clear button landed https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/1834
fixed iOS preventFocusZoom issue iOS https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/5333 https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/3690
made some changes to demo source code view: max height + scroll, better performance
not sure what to do with these Symbian issues (can we reproduce? should we degrade?) https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues?direction=desc&labels=Symbian&milestone=&page=1&sort=updated&state=open
now working on slider CSS (full width), also for new range widget
will push demos for new options (dialog close button, etc.), table styling, and methods (API docs) this week
continue working on new docs for 1.3
- discuss structure and content with Todd and Anne
- make “real world” and RWD demos

Modilfied the following widgets for the new version of grunt (generated examples for options, methods and events)
- Slider
- Dialog
- Collapsible
- Select
- Textinput
- Popup
- Listview
- Collapsibleset
Created the following event entries:
- Updatelayout
- Pageremove
- Swipe
- Swipeleft
- Swiperight
Other changes:
- Designed a warning style to draw the user’s attention to a warning paragraph
- Created the getting started with jQuery Mobile guide on the learn site (most of the guide is based on the original guide which is on the current docs.)
working on the api style guide (our widget description is long so the quick-nav section is not in view... which I believe is a problem for us...)

https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/2383 - can we remove that return false out of checkboxradio vclick?
Pending nav refactor
- https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/4512 - popup should emit pagebeforechange using data.role=”popup” not data.role=”dialog” - it uses data.role=”dialog” because that triggers special handling in nav
- https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/4966 - dialog -> dialog <- back -> dialog results in 3 dialogHashKeys being tacked on, not 2
- https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/5249 - failure during pageshow causes nav to break forever because we never turn isPageTransitioning back off. We should put the ._trigger( ”hide” ) and ._trigger( ”show” ) inside try {}, but then we absorb errors, with the risk of being annoying to developers.
- Idea: To fix https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/3136 (assuming the refactor does not fix it) we can introduce an option to changePage: data.back. When present, if set to true, it goes back, otherwise it goes forward. The url for the pbc event is retrieved from urlHistory.

Slide-panel is mostly workable now. Missing a few tests. Still needs tests for dismissible, and needs implementation for transitions and _destroy.
Work happening here in a branch: http://jquerymobile.com/branches/slide-panel/docs/panels/index.html

re-wrote swipe event to allow extending it.
wrote extension to fix swipe on ios and demo extending swipe (this will NOT be part of the library)
- https://github.com/arschmitz/JQM-Swipefix/blob/master/swipefix.js
First draft of range slider in range branch gallery at
- www.uglymongrel.com/jqm/range.html
- range slider fills full width for better usability working with uGoMobi: to sync with his work on full width slider
general triage bug fixing.
issue #5035 touch events are missing teardown.
- this could have performance implications if people use them a lot

Working on managing the jQuery Mobile Cookbook project. A book that will be published through O’Reilly Media, which is a community effort to write the book in an open source fashion. More info http://jquerymobilecookbook.com
Working on creating and submitting jQuery Mobile talks to various conferences for next year.
My presentation slides from jQuery Asia https://speakerdeck.com/rwhitbeck/in-depth-look-at-jquery-mobile