In this week’s 7 minute episode of Doctype Jim covers jQTouch, a plugin for jQuery that enables quick iPhone websites, and Nick talks about how to design for the small screen.
Think Vitamin will be bringing you two further episodes of Doctype so be sure to check back next Tuesday for the next installment.
After a number of years working on web projects for the NHS Keir spent a few years freelancing before joining Carsonified in February 2008. Having helped out across all areas of the company he now focuses on Think Vitamin. You can follow him on Twitter
This looks really interesting. I’d be interested to know people’s experience of working with it and the results they get? Needs to be quick and responsive and ‘feel’ like an app rather than simply mimicking the funbctionality.
I’ll certainly be having a play and will report back how I get on!
Hi!
I’ve been trying the jQTouch but for the life of me I cannot get even the simplest thing to show on screen.
I’m on widows vista – I tried IE 8, Firefox, Safari and even the iphone (Posted my code to a web server)
I have my index.html file in the same folder as the jqtouch folders . All I get is the title and a black page. When I view source – its in there. When I look at firebug, it seems its found all the references to the js and css file.
Please help
Thanks
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Robin Greene
# January 19, 2010 - 2:30 pm
This looks really interesting. I’d be interested to know people’s experience of working with it and the results they get? Needs to be quick and responsive and ‘feel’ like an app rather than simply mimicking the funbctionality.
I’ll certainly be having a play and will report back how I get on!
Nick Pettit
# January 20, 2010 - 3:04 pm
If you need a demo, I would try the jQTouch demo app, which is what we used in the video: http://jqtouch.com/preview/demos/main/#home
We also use jQTouch for the mobile version of http://doctype.tv
For the best experience, view both links on an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Webshop ontwikkeling
# January 19, 2010 - 6:35 pm
I’ve tried this javascript a few times now. and it works actually pretty good! Great video!
Nick Pettit
# January 20, 2010 - 3:06 pm
Yeah, we’ve used jQTouch on several projects now, and it’s just great. It keeps getting better too, with each new release.
Thanks for watching!
Rony John
# January 21, 2010 - 11:52 am
Nice and Short Video! Embedded in my blog for my readers :)
Thanks Guys.
Nick Pettit
# January 22, 2010 - 10:37 am
Thanks for the embed! We appreciate it. :D
Chris Heinen
# February 23, 2010 - 11:59 pm
I loved this episode of Doctype, it inspired me to write a blog comparing iUI and jQTouch. Can’t wait to use jQTouch in future projects!
http://www.heinencreative.com/archives/articles/iui-vs-jqtouch/
Danny
# March 19, 2010 - 1:47 pm
Thanks for the video. We are just about to start developing some iphone web apps – I’m sure jqtouch will come in useful!
Danny
peter
# May 14, 2010 - 10:15 pm
Hi!
I’ve been trying the jQTouch but for the life of me I cannot get even the simplest thing to show on screen.
I’m on widows vista – I tried IE 8, Firefox, Safari and even the iphone (Posted my code to a web server)
I have my index.html file in the same folder as the jqtouch folders . All I get is the title and a black page. When I view source – its in there. When I look at firebug, it seems its found all the references to the js and css file.
Please help
Thanks
Here’s the code.
jQT.Location
@import “jqtouch/jqtouch.css”;
@import “themes/jqt/theme.css”;
$.jQTouch({
statusBar: ‘black’
});
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Nick Pettit
# January 21, 2010 - 1:44 am
It definitely is. Have you made any sites with it?