The jQueryMobile  Framework announced it’s first Alpha release on the 16th of October. I must say I have been waiting for this with baited breath ever since John Resig (@jeresig) announced the project at the Tech4Africa conference earlier this year. I have also been working with the jQuery API search by Karl Swedberg (@kswedberg).

I have created a jQuery API search plugin for Chrome some time ago, which needs a serious update, but have always wanted to extend the possible ways you can search and browse the jQuery API further especially, to mobile platforms. Over the last week or so I decided that the best way to make this happen is to make an official commitment and define some form of schedule. This, in combination with the alpha release of jQuery Mobile, gave me the final impetus to go ahead and do this.

With this I am very pleased to announce the alpha release of jQDocsMobile.com. So what is supported? Well, as I am building it on top of the jQueryMobile Framework, it should support what the framework supports which means that at the moment, the following devices and platforms are supported:

• iOS v2.2.1, v3.1.3, v 3.2 and v4.0
• Android
• BlackBerry v5.0 and v6.0
• webOS 1.4.1
• Symbian v5.0

Basically check out the A grade browser support listed in the jQueryMobile graded browser support page. I have been able to do very little testing myself and my testing basically covers the iPhone emulator on Mac as well as an Android emulator on Windows. What can you expect from jQDocsMobile.com? Updates, improvements, bug fixes and your feedback and you can expect these rapidly. I am relying a lot on jQueryMobile to ensure cross browser/platform compatibility but, they also rely on the community who use it to provide feedback and submit bug reports.

So, I encourage you to use jQDocsMobile.com and submit your feedback, feature requests and bugs to me. This way, not only do you get a better mobile app to use but, you are helping improve the jQueryMobile Framework in general. I look forward to hearing from everyone, receiving your feedback and evolving jQDocsMobile.com.

* Please note: jQDocsMobile is not associated with  jQuery,the  jQueryMobile  Framework or the jQuery Foundation.