Two Second Impression of JQuery Mobile versus Sencha Touch
I looked at Sencha Touch over the weekend. Since I have experience with JQuery Mobile, I wanted to know how the two frameworks compared. Two things struck me so far:
- Sencha Touch is more mature (not surprising since Sencha Touch has been out longer and JQuery Mobile is still in beta)
- Sencha Touch is not targeting the non-WebKit mobile browser space, while JQuery Mobile aims to gracefully degrade on other platforms such as Windows Mobile and Blackberry where a full experience is not possible
- JQuery Mobile uses HTML and enhances it, while Sencha Touch is programmatically oriented and requires more knowledge of their APIs to create widgets
I might be wincing at my lack of knowledge in this post as I gain more experience with Sencha Touch, but that’s my 2 cents so far.
