Difference between jQTouch and jQuery mobile

Question

What is the difference between jQTouch & jQuery Mobile Framework ?

Are they related (other than being both based on jQuery) ?

Do they have the same goal ?

Answer 1

As I discuss on my blog post:

http://zsprawl.com/iOS/2012/04/comparing-jquery-mobile-vs-jqtouch/

I find jQuery Mobile a lot more feature rich and with a lot better cross platform support. JQTouch is very lightweight and great for "form-based" apps that just need navigation. It is missing a lot of the features that users have asked for, and have been turned down, like fixed footers and tabbars.

Answer 2

For detailed understanding and to know the differences between mobile frameworks,

you can consider the following link.

http://web.bogdanteodoru.com/resources/mobile-framework-comparasion/

Answer 3

jQtouch is optimized for WebKit, jQuery Mobile is looking to support all mobile devices; that is my understanding

some good info here

http://jquerymobile.com/strategy/

and here

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1602169

Answer 4

Additionally to Aaron's answer this is what I've come up with so far:

• jQuery Mobile is an offical and generally more active jQuery project (alpha 4.1 - April 7, 2011) whereas jQTouch, created in 2009 by David Kaneda, has been relatively quiet until release of beta 3 (May 3, 2011)
• jQTouch is a jQuery plugin (see "Staying on jQuery" section) while jQuery mobile is presented as a framework
• jQTouch is focused on small screen device, from their blog :

Apps developed with jQTouch will certainly run fine on iPads and other tablet devices, but we aren’t going to automagically convert to a more tablet-friendly UI that takes advantage of the additional real estate. If you are in need of a JavaScript library that magically updates your UI for everything from small screens, to tablets, to desktops, check out Sencha Touch.

• I realized that the guy behind jQTouch also worked/works on Sencha Touch, which got me even more confused. But he gave some details about the difference between these two on his blog.