jQuery Mobile Team Meeting – Apr 25 2013

• Attending: Todd Parker, John Bender, Jasper de Groot, Anne-Gaelle Colom, Gabriel Schulhof, Alex Schmitz

link Todd

• Team is focused on 1.4 work.
  • Next branch has the streamlined markup and style work. Is running on core 2.0 so we can thoughly test across devices (master will stay on 1.9 for a while to make it easy to test IE8): http://view.jquerymobile.com/next/demos/
  • Content-widget branch has new nav work that will allow AJAX nav to support multiple page panels/zones for tablet apps: http://view.jquerymobile.com/content-widget/
• Deprecations/changes
  • Will track here: https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/wiki/1.4-changelog
  • https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/5933
• Impressive Android 4.x theme for jQuery Mobile 1.3 - nativedroid.godesign.ch
  • We now have solid 3rd party themes for iOS, WP7, BB10, Android 4.x

link John Bender

• Content Container widget
  • content-widget branch
  • resides in navigation currently (scoping)
  • navigate handling moved/split/tested
  • scroll handling moved
  • notes: https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/5427#issuecomment-17026148
• Need to discuss api website versioning

link Jasper de Groot

• worked on “next”:
  • buttonMarkup has been removed from all widgets
  • icons are moved to a pseudo element
  • working on: updating / cleaning up CSS of all the widgets that used buttonMarkup
  • next step: theme inheritance / reduce addClass() for styling and icons

link Anne-Gaelle Colom

• Attended jQuery Europe on 19th April
• Elected to the jQuery Board
• Started to rewrite the events to use the new events template (in the api docs). Completed swipe, swiperight, swipeleft
• Fixed errors in api docs (panels)
• some minor triage
• updated the resources page with the nativeDroid theme and Prime Faces

link Gabriel Schulhof

• Also worked on ”next”
  • Got rid of buttonMarkup from a bunch of widgets.
  • Re-writing $.fn.buttonMarkup to only access data-* attributes during enhance, and otherwise infer the state of the button from the classes present.
  • Perf improvement: http://jsperf.com/listview-master-vs-next

link Alexander Schmitz

• Toolbar Widget
  • removes page.sections
  • removes toolbars from buttonmarkup mega selector
  • Toolbars now work outside pages http://view.jquerymobile.com/page-sections/demos/widgets/headers/external.php
  • True Persistent toolbars http://view.jquerymobile.com/page-sections/demos/widgets/headers/footer-persist-a.php
  • demo server side logic to use persistent toolbar and not send on ajax http://view.jquerymobile.com/page-sections/demos/widgets/headers/optimized-persistant-toolbars-a.php
• Tabs Widget
  • Completely taken from ui
  • small file to add auto init https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/blob/tabs/js/widgets/tabs.js
  • very basic demos http://view.jquerymobile.com/tabs/demos/widgets/tabs/
• very little amount of triage