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tbassetto
jQuery Mobile, Backbone & Bootstrap for a mobile app? It makes me dizzy just thinking about the amount of code the mobile phone will have to download/execute.
knowtheory
Oh?

Backbone is 18k minified (uncompressed)

Underscore is 13k minified (uncompressed)

Bootstrap's js is 20k minified (uncompressed)

jQuery minified is ~32k minified & compressed

and jQuery Mobile the heaviest of the lot is ~81kb minified & compressed.

So how dizzy does that make you?

gnufied
What do you propose? I for one cheer for anyone who is out there supporting Mobile Web. Try the app btw, it works quite well on my Incredible S.
y0ghur7_xxx
Last time I checked jQuery Mobile transitions worked only on iOS. If this is still the case, it's not usable for cross platform mobile web apps.
prateekdayal
It works pretty well on Android too. We tested both on iPhone and a few androids (lower end/higher end). It might work on other phones too but we did not test it out.