jQuery Mobile Team Meeting – Aug 07 2014

link 1.4.4 issues

• several regressions fixed
• Panel
  • need event that happens after beforeopen, but before ... open
    • https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/6764

link 1.5 development

• Widgets:

  • Remove style options from widgets, use classes in markup instead
    • widget
  • Table review
    • Working on moving the column toggle popup to an extension with button as option and writing new tests
    • https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/7372
  • Navbar review
    • New PR against navbar-review branch
    • https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/7473
  • 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
  • Unique entries when popstate is available? allows us to distinguish navigation to the same page twice

• 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-*

• Tests:

  • Remove test for deprecated features and flaky tests (especially dialog)
    • in progress
  • pagecontainer needs tests

• Download Builder:

  • Use jQuery UI’s download builder
    • Rafael working on this

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
• 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
    • will be talking to scott and felix about ui select menu next week
  • http://view.jquerymobile.com/select-fallback/demos/selectmenu-custom/
  • Touch event behavior details across browsers
  • future of pointer events may be in jeopardy going to help scott and dave push for implementation
• 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