Difference between jQTouch and jQuery mobile

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Jla picture Jla · Sep 2, 2010 · Viewed 49.6k times · Source

What is the difference between jQTouch & jQuery Mobile Framework ?

Are they related (other than being both based on jQuery) ?

Do they have the same goal ?

Edit: jQTouch is now jQT

Answer

Aaron Saunders picture Aaron Saunders · Sep 2, 2010

jQtouch is optimized for WebKit, jQuery Mobile is looking to support all mobile devices; that is my understanding

some good info here

http://jquerymobile.com/strategy/

and here

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1602169

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