Mobile Frameworks
About Fluid Mobile Skinning System (mFSS)
mFSS provides a pure CSS mobile skinning framework for webkit-based browsers (including those bundled by the iPhone and Android). mFSS is used in the uPortal 3.2.x mobile theme, as well as a number of Jasig portlets' mobile views.
About jQuery Mobile (jQM)
jQuery Mobile is the current evolution of the jQTouch project and is currently (as of Feb 2011) in alpha release status. The project offers a mobile skinning framework that supports a large number of browsers, as well as additional mobile-specific features like touch events and AJAX page transitions. jQM's documentation doubles as a demonstration of the framework and can be found at http://jquerymobile.com/test/.
Comparing jQM and mFSS
jQuery Mobile is genrally a much more heavy-weight, JavaScript-intensive framework that mFSS. While mFSS performs skinning based solely on a set of well-defined CSS classes, jQM requires developers to place custom attributes on elements, which are later parsed and "enhanced" by the JavaScript library.
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