Update on mobile web frameworks

Recently saw 2 developments on web mobile frameworks that really got my attention.

jQuery Mobile

First, jQuery mobile just entered Beta3. Lots of bugfixes but also one cool thing that has been baking for a while, real fixed footers and headers are available in the framework. Before that, jQuery fixed stuff was just a gimmick with the fixed bars disappearing when scrolling, now you got the real deal, well sort of. It’s unfortunately only available for ios5, meaning not a big lot of people will see it.

Android does not really support fixed positioning yet, it however supports overflow:scrolltouch. But it seems the jQ teams decided to only implement position:fixed for everybody. There is a nice video of the feature here.

Sencha Touch

Sencha kind of went off…

Text editors again

I found my new house, really. I have been using e-text-editor on windows and Textmate on OSX for nearly 3 years and never really saw any contender to them. I tried aptana 3, too slow, no textmate bundle, buggy jquery snippets, in the end I still went back. My 2 favorites both support tm bundles, there fast, E had split view and some nice features like command lines via cygwin.. But where is my textmate 2? Nobody knows, I heard the author went to work on the Espresso editor, it did not impress me, but fortunately now Sublime 2 is here to take the place of Textmate 2.

Sublime text 2, the new holy grail of editing

Okay, I know VIM is powerful (hello sys admins )…