Appendix F. Polyfilling HTML5 with jQuery UI
In chapter 3 we discussed a number of new HTML5 elements and compared them to jQuery UI widgets. In summary, we concluded that the major advantages of the HTML5 controls are
- Ease of use.
- Dependency-free.
- The browser controls how data is inputted. (For instance, you get optimized mobile keyboards.)
The main detriments are
- You have little control over the display.
- They handle only trivial use cases.
- Only some browsers support the controls.
In chapter 3 we also had a brief discussion of which control you should use. To start, if you have a nontrivial usage scenario, you have no choice but to use JavaScript-based widgets like those of jQuery UI. If you want to build a calendar where the user ...
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