Web GUI frameworks for Phone development

Question

I looked already and could't find anyting good.

So a question is, are there any good web frameworks that would allow to easily develop GUI for the majority of high end phones? By this I mean

1. It would have to work "the same" on majority of high end phones (forget the low cost ones)
2. It would have to simplify the development and hide the ugly details from developer
3. Clear design and good documentation. Also some stability on the market.
4. The focus is on good looking and easy to make GUI. Javascript is only a plus.

So basically I am looking for something like jQuery or maybe ExtJS for phone development.

EDIT:

It would be a big plus if it could be consumed in Delphi

EDIT 2:

If it was not clear, I am looking for a web base solution that would run in a browser. So the target is HTML output and not native code.

Answer 1

I'm confused, do you want a web framework that runs on the web for phones (like jqTouch), or are you looking for something that will create native apps provides some amount of portability (like MonoTouch/C#)?

Answer 2

To contribute to the subject. I found a question that has answers to such topic:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1980573/iwebkit-vs-jqtouch-vs-iui

So there seem to be the following frameworks:

1. iUI
2. jQTouch
3. WebApp.net
4. iWebKit
5. Yahoo! Blueprint
6. JQTouch
7. PhoneGap
8. Sencha Touch
9. jQueryMobile

PhoneGap supports a wide variety of phones but it does so by making native (or interpreted I don't know) code to run on them, so it is a no go for me.

Yahoo! Blueprint supports a lot of phones also, but seems to need a special framework to run on. So also a no go.

jQTouch and WebApp.net look promissing, but they only support webkit based browsers. Yes these are in majority these days probably, but Blackberry for one has non webkit based browser and Blackberry is very important to me.

I will keep looking, in the meantime, don't be shy to contribute ;)

EDIT

Found this wiki about some frameworks. Most are embedded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_phone_web_based_application_framework

EDIT2

I added Sencha Touch (www.sencha.com/products/touch) to the list as it was added after this post was created. They are the former ExtJS and now have the WebKit based mobile solution.

EDIT3

I added jQuery Mobile (http://jquerymobile.com/) to the list as it was added after this post was created.

Answer 3

lightweight jquery-like alternative that works on android & iphone (& possibly blackberry & winmo) is xui, cfr. http://xuijs.com/documentation and http://github.com/brianleroux/xui.

edit: xui is more about javascript and less about a good looking GUI, so this might not be what you're looking for after all.

Answer 4

http://jquerymobile.com/

... when its released in "Late 2010".

Answer 5

Sencha Touch seams to be the solution. Since UniGui for Delphi/Lazarus already supports eye catching ExtJS it would be ideal if it extends to Sencha Touch. We will see.