iWebkit vs. JQTouch vs. iUI

maralbjo picture maralbjo · Dec 30, 2009 · Viewed 29.7k times · Source

I am going to develop a content rich application that ideally should have been an iPhone-app, but since I'm short on time, I will stick with technologies that I can, such as JQuery, CSS and HTML. The more mobile devices my site runs on besides iPhone, the better.

A brief search on the web leaves me with the impression that there are three tools I may use: iWebkit, JQTouch and iUI. I have toyed about with JQTouch, which I find impressive and simple to use.

With simplicity comes lack of customizability; I would very much like to have sliders and other cool features in my GUI.

Any comments on which of these three to go for?

Answer

Adrian Kosmaczewski picture Adrian Kosmaczewski · Jan 3, 2010

I've talked about this subject a couple of days ago in a WebTuesday meeting, here are the slides of the presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/akosma/webtuesday-mobile-web-applications-framework-overview

I talk about the following frameworks / technologies:

  • iUI
  • jQTouch
  • WebApp.net
  • iWebKit
  • SproutCore / Cappuccino
  • Yahoo! Blueprint

I personally have used iUI, and then later jQTouch, which I literally fell in love with.