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WolfShade
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April 6, 2018
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jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile: can they work together?

  • April 6, 2018
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Hello, all,

I'm setting to create my first responsive design project (an internal blog), and I've worked with jQuery UI before.  But I've never worked with jQuery Mobile, and have read threads where UI and Mobile don't necessarily play well together.  Granted, the threads are years old, and maybe things have changed.  IDK.

But I wanted to get everyone's opinion on this.  Can UI and Mobile work together?  Or is there a better way to make a responsive design that works well on desktop, cell, and tablet screens?

V/r,

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    Correct answer Nancy OShea

    Okay, I'm looking at Bootstrap.  So, I need to have jQuery (already have that set), popper (never heard of it), and the Bootstrap files all loaded?  What is popper.js?

    V/r,

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    WolfShade  wrote

    What is popper.js?

    GitHub - FezVrasta/popper.js: A kickass library to manage your poppers

    "Popper.js is a positioning engine.  Its purpose is to calculate the position of an element to make it possible to position it near a given reference element.

    The engine is completely modular and most of its features are implemented as modifiers (similar to middlewares or plugins).   The whole code base is written in ES2015 and its features are automatically tested on real browsers thanks to SauceLabs and TravisCI.

    Popper.js has zero dependencies. No jQuery, no LoDash, nothing.
    It's used by big companies like Twitter in Bootstrap v4, Microsoft in WebClipper, and Atlassian in AtlasKit."

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    pziecina
    Legend
    April 6, 2018

    All I can tell you is that I used the jQuery UI accordion widget with jQuery mobile when it was introduced into Dw, (cs5.5/6) without problems. Since then never used either.

    WolfShade
    WolfShadeAuthor
    Legend
    April 6, 2018

    What do you use for responsive design, now?

    V/r,

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    pziecina
    Legend
    April 6, 2018

    I just use flexbox, but I do experiment with css grid layouts which i think is not as good for rwd, yet.

    I say "yet", because it maybe the better solution once more real world examples of its use are available. Jury still out for me.