jquery and mobile browser compatiblity?

Question

I want to build a relatively simple version of my site for mobile phones but i will definately need javascript and jquery for many functions.

Googling didn't help to find an answer. How is compatibility of jquery with popular browsers in mobile phones? I am talking for smartphones. For example the deafult browsers for these platforms

Windows mobile 6+ Android 1.5+ iphone 3g

and let's add opera mobile.

Has anyone tried it?

Answer 1

jQuery should work fine on at least the Android and iPhone web browsers (don't know about WinMo), as they fully support JavaScript and are for the most part standards compliant.

If you expand a little bit on which specific features of jQuery you're using, I or others can give a better answer here.

Answer 2

Both Android and iPhone are full featured WebKit browsers (bar plugins). I would be highly surprised if it doesn't work on those.

Answer 3

Some info, iphone, android, and similar webkit browser should be compatible. I think you will have many problems with winmo.

Answer 4

Should work just fine in current Opera Mobile - if you target older versions (<9.5 AFAIK) you'd need to watch out for this: http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/show.dml/1665828

Answer 5

According to the factsheet, there will be jQuery Mobile in October 2010. So we don't need to think about mobile compatibility ever again :))