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Re:How to build fast HTML5 mobile apps using backbone.js, ze... by k33n on Friday March 02, 2012 @04:19PM (#3658428)
Zepto doesn't support IE at all. I'm all for not spending much effort getting stuff to work in IE, but it seems like a bad idea to take it so far as to use Zepto.
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Re:How to build fast HTML5 mobile apps using backbone.js, ze... by Sujan on Friday March 02, 2012 @06:53PM (#3658837)
Conditional comment for IE, load jQuery instead of Zepto. Done.

(Yes, this really works. I use it in production.)

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Re:How to build fast HTML5 mobile apps using backbone.js, ze... by mmorey on Friday March 02, 2012 @04:25PM (#3658446)
If your target is Android and iOS why wouldn't you go with the fastest and slimmest library you can find?
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Re:How to build fast HTML5 mobile apps using backbone.js, ze... by blntechie on Saturday March 03, 2012 @12:29AM (#3659473)
As a Windows phone user myself, I will be happy if you can support IE. I am not asking you to make decisions based on IE support but if you can support IE with only little tweaks to your iPhone/Andoid codebase, I would recommend you to do that. If it works in desktop IE9 it will work in mobile IE9.
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Re:How to build fast HTML5 mobile apps using backbone.js, ze... by gsmaverick on Saturday March 03, 2012 @12:53AM (#3659504)
I've had some experience with trying to make things that work on iOS/Android work on WP7 and it's nearly impossible. For starters mobile IE does not implement tap/touch handlers; which is a dealbreaker for mobile web apps.
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Re:How to build fast HTML5 mobile apps using backbone.js, ze... by bphogan on Friday March 02, 2012 @05:29PM (#3658658)
I think that may have been his point. There's a small group of people who insist that Microsoft's mobile devices will take off. Those will run IE. I know I've been pushed away from using certain libraries for that reason.
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