###Datepicker fixes

• It’s experimental and temporary so we don’t want to focus too much time on updating
• What is our longer-term plan for this? Current UI version is too heavy for mobile
• Coordinate with UI team on what new codebase to standardize on
  • Re-write already in progress, planned for UI 2.0 release: http://view.jqueryui.com/datepicker/datepicker-rewrite/index.html
  • Calendar vs. a spinner/grouped select style picker. See: http://dev.jtsage.com/jQM-DateBox/
• Near-term, make small fixes to keep people happy?
  • Team consensus is to pull the datepicker from experiements because it’s not our direction and is taking time to triage/support
  • Potentially move as a demo into a non-project repo (Filament Group’s?)
  • Pull this in? https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/1543, in particular https://github.com/ofri/jquery-mobile/commit/28eddbbe91737008ccb36ea177418a675e9196d2 within it.

Outcome: Looks good, but we need tests.

###Navigation Extensibility:

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/wiki/Refactor:-navigation.js-A4.1-extensibility
• A solid philosophy suggestion for hooks:
  • Events trigger, or call methods, always.
  • Conditional pre-hook the events (@ top)
  • Post hook methods (@ bottom)
• Currently some of our hooks are at the same juncture. These are effectively the same hook.
  • Example: beforehide and beforeshow are separated by 2-lines, and pagehide and pageshow are separated by 2-lines
• URL hooks (upon get especially) are probably critical things to add.
• Not documented in the wiki yet: authoritative user gestures like swipeleft or swiperight; ability to override any pre-specified transitions at that juncture.
• Not really a hook, but listed on that wiki page: allowing re-loading the same page including transition for apps that munge the same target container over and over.

###Pull: Input/selects with dots in with ID

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/1522#issuecomment-1131327

###Opera Mini: ajax and scrolling issues

• The problem: Opera Mini prior to V6 times-out after 2.5 seconds. See Issue 1276. https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/1276
• One notion is the progressive enhancement crutch is expensive for Opera Mini because we do a lot of expensive DOM insertions and manipulations that, in the end, never render anyway. A link is never a button or a bar when rendered in Opera Mini; it stays a simple link. Therefore maybe we should option-out of expensive markup, especially DOM insertions, transitions, and some setTimeout() kluges in some key situations like Opera Mini.
• Another notion: drop Opera Mini which is expensive in terms of the wider mission for jQuery Mobile.

###Targeting Ajax navigation and animated page transitions

Currently in jQuery Mobile, if a browser supports media queries or is Internet Explorer, we enhance the page to the full experience, including Ajax-based navigation for animated page transitions. The issue we’re seeing now is that there are browsers that support all the advanced enhancements but don’t properly track hash changes as history stack events so the back button is essentially broken on both Blackberry 5 and Symbian. Opera Mini also has issues with the Ajax navigation system because of the way it’s proxy-based rendering works.

Due to these limitations, we’re currently exploring how to better target Ajax navigation only to a subset of capable browsers because the animated page transitions that Ajax enables seems like a “nice-to-have” enhancement that we should layer on only if confident we won't negatively impact the user experience. We don’t believe that using user agent detection is a sustainable way to make this divide so we’re investigating feature-based detection to allow us to only opt only fully capable browsers into the Ajax navigation system.

##New volunteer: Alex Kessinger, developer at Mixed Media Labs and their jQM/native hybrid PicPlz app, and speaker at last jQuery Conf. Can’t be on the call but will check in after.

###Navigation re-write status update and planning

• URL handling:

  • in-progress, test written, code changes this week by Kin

• Extensibility hooks: need to document on wiki page

  • Steven Black will start a wiki page with suggesitons

• Caching: a simple "don't cache" flag per page

  • A new data-cache attribute on the page div to tell framework to re-load it if shown again, default is “true” (re-use the page) but you can set data-cache="false" to tell the framework to re-load ever time it’s viewed
  • $( "[data-role='page'][data-cache='false']" ).live( "pagehide", function(){ $(this).remove(); });
  • Issue: https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/1554

• Memory management: how to keep the DOM from getting too big?

  • A new global configuration option to set the max number of pages to keep in the DOM at once. Once that max is hit, we run a a document-wide $("selector").remove() at the appropriate juncture in every changePage invocation (post Ajax success) that finds all pages that are data-cache="false" or oldest in the stack and delete them. We’ll need to check for alreadyLocalPage = ("[data-url='...']:not([data-cache='false']")
  • Default to a sensible number like 15-20 pages but this can be overridden to any number more than 2 (to allow for transitions) or turned off completely
  • Issue: https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/1555

• Focus: can we handle this better?

  • we need to have focus brought to the top of the current page on transition for accessibility and keyboard/focus-based navigation
  • Scott Jehl will create a wiki page with suggestions

• Transitions: how to smooth out, eliminate blinking

  • Kin will tackle this after URLs

https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/wiki/Refactor:-navigation-paths

https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/wiki/Refactor:-navigation.js-A4.1-structure

https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/wiki/Refactor:-Transition-dependencies

https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/wiki/Refactor:-changepage

###Radiobuttons can't be selected once they are selected, then de-selected

• Bender has been looking at this, jQuery core 1.6 RC issue?
• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/1532#comment_1092878

###Opera Mini Page ScrollTo issues - blank & cut off pages

• Who wants to tackle this?
• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/1276

###Blackberry 5 support - A or C grade TBD based on performance.

• Scott is going to look at this soon
• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/490

###Checkbox array support

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/1449#comment_1093778

##PULL REQUESTS

###listview.filter / data-filter performance optimization

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/1475

###Decoupling Navbar State from Button "active" State

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/1488

###Images with full URL broken in FF

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/1551
• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/1552

###Theme inheritance in dialogs

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/1354

###Update functional tests: bind click event to objects

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/1393

###Dynamically insert thumbnail item at 0-index position doesn't update all style after listview refresh

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/1394

###Several patches - Faster data filter / control what is filtered + Load dialog content from other base URL

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/1418

###Patch for issue #1024 (Duplicate pages created in DOM)

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/1456