Some what inspired by Linkedin’s new touch app, I’m looking into rewriting Evocatus’ mobile site/app from JQuery Mobile to a custom HTML5 solution.

The problems we have with JQuery Mobile are:

• It’s slow
• It’s a rather big download
• Scrolling is weird, flakey and sometimes just does not work 
• The buttons and widgets are kind of ugly and feel cookie cutter like
• The history hashing sometimes sometimes does weird things
• It has the framework effect where it may not have the best solution for a problem

That being said at of all the mobile frameworks JQuery Mobile is by far the easiest to get started with.

So I have decided to take a look into cobbling a bunch of libraries. I have had to do this time and time again through out my soft dev career. I think this is because frameworks sometimes try to do everything on their own and then end up doing it half ass. In fact the frameworks that do really well I have found generally have plugins or wrappers around existing libraries.

My mobile stack so far:

• JQuery or Zepto (still deciding on this)
• backbone.js
• iScroll
• Less.js
• Coffee Script

I’ll add another post later to see how my prototyping goes. I’m also going to check out:

• https://github.com/agentgt/javascript-jquery.mobile.iscroll ,
• https://github.com/incandescent/happypointer , and
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptjunkie/hh377172.aspx

to see if JQuery Mobile might still be an option.