[I-mobile-u] Opinion about the frameworks

[Dave Olsen]

Marco-

With the very large caveat that I haven't played with the latest
releases of MIT or Harvard I think these are the positives for the WVU
fork... at least compared to the original MIT version:

1. documentation

2. more thought put into allowing configuration for third parties. v2
still has its rough edges but v3 will definitely take a leap forward
in that area.

3.  jQTouch + jQuery for richer, more native-like interaction

4. device detection is included in one package as opposed to two (at
least for MIT. not sure about Harvard.)

The cons are:

1. at least looking at the Harvard code base and assuming all goes as
planned they'll have native apps to go along with the mobile web
version. i don't plan on going that far as i'm only one guy.

2. jQTouch + jQuery are *heavy*. nice interaction but it comes with a
price. also introduces some fun interaction issues.

3. no shuttles module by default.

4. v2 doesn't like MySQL. i personally think SQLite is more than
enough for the project and it works well. in v3 MySQL, Postgres, and
MSSQL support have been added via MDB2 support.

If you're interested in the future direction of the WVU fork check out
some of these blog posts related to it. They'll say v2.5 but I think
I'm just going to move past that to v3 because I've had so many
changes.

http://www.dmolsen.com/mobile-in-higher-ed/?tag=mobile-web-osp

The full list of recent changes and some things I still want to work
on can be found in the projects CHANGELOG in the master branch on
GitHub:

https://github.com/dmolsen/MIT-Mobile-Web/blob/master/CHANGELOG

If you need any further clarification feel free to let me know.

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Marco Rivadeneyra
<marco.rivadeneyra at societao.com> wrote:
> Hello, I'm new at this mailing list and interested in the solutions
> presented by the iMobileU initiative for my school and would like your
> opinion about the strengths and weaknesses of the 3 open source frameworks
> (MIT, Hardvard and WVU) could you please help me?
>
>
> --
> Saludos,
> Marco A. Rivadeneyra
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