Question

I am building a single-page web application and I’ve been looking for a library that implements just a set of touch events, tap, taphold, swipe etc but doesn’t:

• a) force me to use Sencha Touch
• b) come with tons of extra stuff that I don’t want, without the ability to rip out just the events portion (Jquery mobile & Sencha Touch)

I did try to rip out just the events stuff from jquery mobile and the swipe events stopped working, not sure why.

My experiments with jquery mobile have frustrated me, it forces me to build my app “their” way, having to add data-role=”page” to my container just to stop the page being blank when it’s included, adding loading divs to the body (yuk). Since I already have a working app I don’t want that.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Cheers

Answer 1

jQM is now decoupled:

• http://jquerymobile.com/blog/2011/08/03/jquery-mobile-beta-2-released/

Widgets: Now decoupled for flexible builds

We’ve wanted to decouple all our widgets from the page plugin for a
long time now and we’re happy to announce that we finally landed this
change. So what exactly does decoupled mean anyway? Well, the
individual widgets and utilities have always been broken out into
separate script files. However, the page plugin was responsible for
handling the auto-initialization all of the official plugins found in
the markup at page creation. This situation made it impossible to
remove plugins you don’t need without causing errors, and generally
set a bad precedent for future widget additions.

Now, pretty much all the UI widgets in the jQuery Mobile library are
completely decoupled so they can simply be deleted if not needed for a
particular project. This change allows you to dramatically reduce the
size of the library by only including the specific set of widgets or
features you need, in addition to the handful of required, core files.
While we still plan to do more decoupling and cleanup, the following
files are now decoupled and can safely be removed from the make file
before you do a custom build:

• page header/content/footer
• collapsible
• controlgroup
• fieldcontain
• fixheaderfooter
• button
• checkboxradio
• select
• slider
• textinput
• links theming
• listview
• navbar
• grid

We will work on a dependency map because a few widgets rely on others
to work. For example, the button markup plugin is called by many of
the widgets above, so it can only be excluded but if you’re not using
any of the widgets that depend on buttons.

We’re still working out our recommendations for mapping plugin
dependencies and decoupling things even further. Ultimately, this will
be surfaced in a download builder tool, so stay tuned!

You can head over to their GIT Repo and just download what you want:

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/tree/master/js