Sencha touch vs Dojo Mobile vs jQuery Mobile?

Question

• I've read the Sencha Touch docs. I feel its MVC model is very attractive but it seems to has a long start-up time, especially with external JavaScript (eg:map).

• Although I'm comfortable using jQuery in a web site, I have concerns about the maturity of jQuery Mobile. (I haven't tested it yet)

• I have no idea about Dojo's mobile framework.

Which of these alternatives do you like? Why?

Answer 1

So what exactly are you requirements? Each framework has different several advantages and disadvantages....

Me personally I use Jquery Mobile, which is now at it's first official release. Don't let version numbers fool you, this has been developed 1 year long and actually works pretty good! The others provide different capabilities:

1. sencha is based on javascript controls - you create the whole layout from within javascript using JSON notation for properties/actions/events

2. jqm allows you to use your "standard" HTML and enhances it "auto-magically". In my opinion this is the closest to HTML you'll ever get

3. Dojo is more about MVC and allows a more structured environment. Haven't used it personally so I can't say too much about it...

Hope this helps