jQuery Mobile Team Meeting – Jan 17 2013


  • Attending: Todd Parker, John Bender, Jasper de Groot, Anne-Gaelle Colom, Alex Schmitz, Ghislain Seguin, Ralph Whitbeck

link Todd

  • 1.3.0 Beta released late this Monday - blog post and demo
  • jQuery core 1.9.0 is now final - we should replace 1.8.3 in our docs today
  • New jQuery Mobile API docs released - need to start redirecting people there and not updating the old docs site.
  • New demos site - we should start focusing on polishing that up
    • New docs design and IA
    • Port non-API content and demos into the new docs format
  • New plugins site released, we need to add our widgets there - who wants to take point on the package.json creation?
  • Working to port the mobile site and blog over to the new responsive within the next 3-4 weeks. Anne and Adam will help out. The blog theme is a current blocker for the site port.
  • Jeff has created drafts of the changelogs for 1.1.2 and 1.2.1 so we can start planning when we want to do RCs of those maintenance releases.
  • 1.4 planning will happen here: https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/wiki/1.4-planning
  • Thanks to Microsoft for donating a huge batch of WP7.8 phones to the project for testing. We’ll distribute to team members once they arrive in the Boston lab.
  • Thanks to RIM for donating two BB10 phones to the project for testing.

link John Bender

  • Bug fixes for nav
  • Tests are failing/timing out
  • Working example in $.mobile.navigate docs

link Jasper de Groot

link Anne-Gaelle Colom

  • API docs:
    • updated example template to use JQM 1.3 beta and jQuery 1.8.3
    • updated jquery-wp-content footer to new CDN
    • updated data-attribute page
    • created entries for panels and rangeslider
    • added examples to isRelativeUrl and get methods
    • added new options to dialog
  • Will talk at jQuery Europe!!! (Good UI design with jQuery Mobile) my aim is to illustrate all good UI design rules with JQM examples.

link Ghislain Seguin

  • Still need to generate image zip files for all versions available. Who can help putting them on the CDN after that’s done?
  • Continue to work on grunt migration

link Alexander Schmitz

  • Triage
  • helping with panels
  • update touch events for core 1.9
  • research dom node creation speed with |Nix|
  • review PR https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/5466
  • expose resetActivePageHeight on $.mobile to use in panel
  • testing against 1.9 final
  • widgets outside pages

link Ralph Whitbeck

  • Working on jQuery Mobile training for jQuery UK
  • Giving a jQuery Mobile session at BlackBerry Jam in Amsterdam Feb 5-6