jQuery Mobile Team Meeting – May 29 2014

• window/document context awareness
  • We assume outside of widgets that document and window refer to the correct document and the correct window
    • implementing this in navigation is something we for the long long term (if ever)
• tests
  • always run tests in the browser, not only in Phantom JS - turned out that many tests were broken
    • agreed
  • unit tests should not require the whole framework

link 1.5 development

• Widgets:
  • Remove style options from widgets, use classes in markup instead
    • Web-UI-Framework team is working on this. Started with PR for button.
    • https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/7348
  • Table review
    • Working on moving the column toggle popup to an extension with button as option
    • https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/7372
  • Navbar review
    • Cory opened PR. Will be pulled into a branch for work on demos and testing
    • https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/7359
  • Listview review
    • no planning yet
  • Toolbar review
    • no planning yet
  • Selectmenu review
    • no planning yet
  • Panel review
    • review or wait for rewrite
• Remove deprecated code
• Navigation: Start with API review
  • Start with API review:
    • Alex will work on this
  • Establish the API
  • Hash/query params according specs
  • Support deeplinking
• Adopt widgets from UI:
  • Menu
    • no planning yet
  • Autocomplete
    • no planning yet
  • Selectmenu (if ready)
    • probably not ready in time
  • Datepicker (if ready)
    • probably not ready in time
  • Spinner
    • no planning yet
• Namespacing:
  • Switch to fixed namespace: data-ui-*
• Events:
  • review swipe (event data used)
    • taken care of in 1.4.2
• Tests:
  • Remove test for deprecated features and flaky tests (especially dialog)
    • in progress
• Download Builder:
  • update the file structure in the Mobile repo to match UI's
    • done
  • Use jQuery UI’s download builder
    • Rafael working on this
• Tools: Adopt jquery-release script
  • done

link Other topics:

• css transitions
  • should they stay or should they go
  • http://jsbin.com/xatiz/1/edit
• draggable panel
  • https://github.com/arschmitz/simple-panel
• browserstack-runner
  • get tests running here
  • https://github.com/arschmitz/jquery-mobile-onpage
    • plugin for easy and effecient event attachment for pages; this will stay a external plugin
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10FBrCSUFCmLIbJlODJCXvLNmKSUqQesWIX41H26YWsc/edit
    • proposal for fixing pagecontainer events this should be considdered a bug and done in 1.4.3; WIP in branch
  • https://github.com/jquery/api.jquerymobile.com/pull/297
    • needs review
• select menu
  • working on refactoring regular select to allow multiple and add enhanced along with various other cleanup hoing for simpler interaction with custom select for fallback
    • no update
  • http://view.jquerymobile.com/select-fallback/demos/selectmenu-custom/
• android 4.4 swipe
  • i dont think we can support swipe on 4.4 research from google
    • talking to Rick Byers the guy in charge of touch / pointer events in chrome pleding our case but this was an intentional change
  • Touch event behavior details across browsers
  • future of pointer events may be in jeopardy going to help scott and dave push for implementation
• testswarm
  • Alex working with Timo on this
    • no update
• 3rd party code demos
  • provide guideline + make them stand out more in the demos
    • Jasper will work on this for 1.5 release - no updates
  • https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/7377