[blub]

When mobile web developers see what's possible with native apps and how successful they are, what do they do? They try to clone them in typical "webapp-uber-alles" fashion, instead of building quality mobile websites. And that's why I have to look at dumbed down iOS-clone UIs while trying to browse a website from my phone.

By the way, I have just looked at jquerymobile.com from an iPhone 4 and the UX is unresponsive, showing the checkerboard pattern, flickering and so on. Not something that I'd want more web developers to be aware of. I would want more developers to be aware of web standards and good design, not JavaScript hacks.

[Spyro7]

The techniques in mobile web development are still young. A general knowledge of how to build a site for mobile interfaces has not come around yet.

For now, it is understandable that you will see some imitation of successful "app" design patterns, but things can change quite easily. If it turns out that the iOS look is not good for the mobile web experience then things will change.

"By the way, I have just looked at jquerymobile.com from an iPhone 4 and the UX is unresponsive, showing the checkerboard pattern, flickering and so on."

The project is still in beta, and there are still some rough edges. It's an open source project, so the developers and users would greatly appreciate it if you could file a bug report about this issue:

https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues

I did a quick check and I didn't see that your issue has already been reported, so your contribution would be doubly helpful.

"I would want more developers to be aware of web standards and good design, not JavaScript hacks."

I understand your perspective (all developers should definitely know web standards and good design), but, surely, you would agree that there is value in trying to do something a little different? Today's javascript hack may well turn out to be tomorrow's revolution.

[JoelSutherland]

I've spent some time with jQuery mobile and the performance is just too poor for it to be usable. What's crazy is that regular jquerymobile.com is more responsive than the 'Docs and Demos' section that is built using jQuery mobile on my phone (Nexus S).

I've seen the same sluggishness in jQuery Mobile apps I've tried building on the iPhone4, Palm Pre and a couple of Android devices. It's too bad really.