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Is jQuery Mobile ready for production use?

Asked 2011-02-21T21:16:35.647
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I've been meaning to use jQuery Mobile for a client project that is to go live in about 2 months (in the end of April) but I can't seem to find any roadmap for jQuery Mobile.

It is now in Alpha 3 stage. There were only one month between Alpha 1 and Alpha 2 but about two and a half months between Alpha 2 and Alpha 3.

According to the Bug Tracker, jQuery Mobile has 231 open issues where many of them are critical or high or even 2 with status Blocker.

I really wan't to use this framework because of it's ambition to reach so many clients and my feelings for jQuery in general :) But is it wise at this point in time?

Update 2011-03-04

According to http://jquerymobile.com/2011/02/jquery-mobile-alpha-3-released/: "Right now we’re planning on releasing the first beta within the month before moving on to our 1.0 release."

According to sidneyallen: "#jquery mobile Beta ETA is mid to late April. Overheard at Bay Area Mobile meetup."

Update 2011-03-23

According to jQuery Mobile's official Twitter account, jQuery Mobile Alpha 4 should be released within a week and beta should be out by

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In developing a client site with it, the answer is a solid "maybe". It does a lot of things right, and Alpha 3 is a huge improvement, but there are definitely bugs and missing features that make it difficult to work with and make some interactions currently impossible.

It's a great project, and has a ton of potential, but I'd carefully judge your client's needs. If the current limitations are not show-stoppers, it's tons of fun to use and greatly accelerates mobile development.

answered 2011-02-21T21:29:01.103
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Jquery Mobile the Beta version released last week(June 11) is closest one. If you are not concerned about licensing. Sproutcore and SenchaTouch are other two ones that I like

answered 2011-07-07T23:59:18.743

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