| 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. |