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A comment on Backbone UI.

Re:Backbone UI by lucian1900 on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @06:05AM (#4131024)
Looks very nice. I'm going to see how it does on mobiles.

I'm just now looking into alternatives to the dreadful jQuery Mobile for a Backbone-based app.

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Re:Backbone UI by bitdiffusion on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @06:26AM (#4131073)
I was looking at jquery mobile and it didn't look too bad - would you mind giving a summary of what you didn't like about it?
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Re:Backbone UI by lucian1900 on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @06:43AM (#4131121)
It looks pretty nice and it works well enough for static pages.

But if you're generating the UI from JavaScript, it really doesn't cooperate.

It also has various performance problems, especially on Android (since its authors appear to prefer iOS). It creating tons of DOM elements doesn't help either.

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Re:Backbone UI by joestelmach on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @08:26AM (#4131403)
Have a closer look - this library was built solely for generating UI from JavaScript.
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Re:Backbone UI by lucian1900 on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @05:48AM (#4136277)
But it somehow manages to completely suck at it. Even if you trigger the 'refresh' events, you'll still run into trouble.

jQM appears built to generate lots of DOM with JavaScript from static HTML pages.

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