jQuery Mobile Team Meeting – Apr 18 2013

• Attending: Todd Parker, Jasper de Groot, Gabriel Schulhof, Ghislain Seguin

link Todd

• Focus on 1.4 right now
  • Theming
    • Markup & style simplification
      • Jasper working in the “next” branch
      • Trying to eliminate the need for buttonMarkup and wrapping elements, simplify button classes and markup
      • Test page of simplified HTML/CSS (no js) with icon fonts - http://view.jquerymobile.com/next/demos/test/icons/font-icons.php
    • Possibly expand theme levers: listview (menu) so we can have a unique flat style for lists vs. buttons
    • Icons - SVG vs. icons
      • Testing icon font compatibility (see below)
      • Need to do the same for SVG via Grunticon
      • Compatibility result testing in progress for icons: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AskujzE4Ig0QdEFwbzNFSmJjWUd1dkZldDY4MVFyR0E#gid=0
    • Pre-processor research
      • Hoping a CSS pre-processor could help with class mapping between UI and Mobile. See http://wiki.jqueryui.com/w/page/65050459/Classes%20Option
      • Need to set up a test of this, maybe with SASS/Compass
  • API/Performance Re-factor
    • Gabriel and Alex are focusing on this
    • Replaced jqmData with getAttribute in listview - http://jsperf.com/listview-jqmdata-vs-getattribute/2
    • Centralized the option setting for widgets
    • Going to look at dialog and form element API complaince/standards first

link Jasper de Groot

• hangout about theming with Todd, Scott and Mat last week
• have to see what is best approach for theme inheritance
• we might still need to use JS to add classes because we can’t use data- attr selectors in CSS because of namespacing
• testing font icons vs. SVG icons (grunticon) http://view.jquerymobile.com/next/demos/test/icons/font-icons.php (test buttons also have simplified markup)

link Gabriel Schulhof

• Triage:
  • https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/5898
  • https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/5892
  • https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/5893
  • https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/5906
  • Tests to cover triaged bugs
• Optimization: listview now uses $.mobile.getAttribute for a moderate gain

link Ghislain Seguin

• adopted jQuery’s .jshintrc & fixed associated lints
• Added lint target as a first step to test
• Fixed Download builder ( and stayed polite with the users who “wanted it fixed ASAP!” )
• Removed the depend! plugin in favor of RequireJS’ shim config