I've never found a good use of JQM - I don't know if there are perhaps some out there, or if there's no way to escape the shitness, but sites that have a mobile version that doesn't use JQM are generally thought out and less likely to annoy me.
What do you think of my WoW minipets site? It doesn't have a whole separate 'mobile version', rather just some mobile-specific (via media queries) CSS that make it work better on a small screen. I don't think there's even any mobile-specific JS, and it uses the full version of jQuery.
It depends on the site but do wonder why some even have an entirely separate mobile version – if they didn't weigh their pages down with so much crap it wouldn't be necessary in may cases.
edit: I've only tried it on my iphone so there might be some issues in the various Android browsers, although since they're WebKit-based, hopefully not.
But you're so easily annoyed. There's pills you can take, though I prefer the 7% solution.
Seriously though, that screen shot is about as offensive as a bingo card. It's shit "In every single way" ? Really? Who cares?
My first take on designing custom websites for smart phones is that the screen real estate is so constrained by a) small pixel dimensions and b) touch-screen that there's not much room to do cool stuff.
Most of the jqm featured gallery sites have far better desktop browser pages than mobile. Apart from that though, the functionality is pretty well thought out.
Not many take the one-size-fits-all-least-common-denominator approach as suggested here.
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Hrm, that's an interesting idea actually. Maybe I could then have a 'browse all' button or something - as it stands it's still worth loading all the data at once since it's less than 100K, and only about 20K gzipped.
Unlike Xen, I still don't get it. That's a pretty crap design, admittedly, but what has that got to do with JQM's functionality? Are you damning a functionality aid simply because it's used by people with terrible design skills? In that case, you might as well shoot Damian Hirst's paint supplier. Perhaps not such a bad idea.
