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Key features:

  • Built on jQuery core for familiar and consistent jQuery syntax and minimal learning curve and leverages jQuery UI code and patterns.
  • Compatible with all major mobile, tablet, e-reader & desktop platforms - iOS, Android, Blackberry, Palm WebOS, Nokia/Symbian, Windows Phone 7, MeeGo, Opera Mobile/Mini, Firefox Mobile, Kindle, Nook, and all modern browsers with graded levels of support.
  • Lightweight size and minimal image dependencies for speed.
  • Modular architecture for creating custom builds that are optimized to only the features needed for a particular application
  • HTML5 Markup-driven configuration of pages and behavior for fast development and minimal required scripting.
  • Progressive enhancement approach brings core content and functionality to all mobile, tablet and desktop platforms and a rich, installed application-like experience on newer mobile platforms.
  • Responsive design techniques and tools allow the same underlying codebase to automatically scale from smartphone to desktop-sized screens
  • Powerful Ajax-powered navigation system to enable animated page transitions while maintaining back button, bookmarking and and clean URLs though pushState.
  • Accessibility features such as WAI-ARIA are also included to ensure that the pages work for screen readers (e.g. VoiceOver in iOS) and other assistive technologies.
  • Touch and mouse event support streamline the process of supporting touch, mouse, and cursor focus-based user input methods with a simple API.
  • Unified UI widgets for common controls enhance native controls with touch-optimized, themable controls that are platform-agnostic and easy to use.
  • Powerful theming framework and ThemeRoller application make highly-branded experiences easy to build.