How to use jQuery Mobile to create iPhone Web Apps?

I have been assigned to create a web app for the iPhone, and I was supposed to try jQuery Mobile for developing as it supports many platforms.

• Is PHP a requirement for creating iPhone web apps?
• What other 开发者_StackOverflow中文版ways can we create an effective web app similar to native apps?

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PHP is not a requirement. I'm currently using jQuery Mobile + PhoneGap to create a "native" app. Effectively it is a browser or webview embedded in a thin native app shell.

If you want true native UI elements then you can also try out Titanium Appcelerator.

Personally I found Appcelerator to be a bit slower to develop in. Everytime I changed a UI element I would have to wait 30 seconds to deploy it to the emulator and see if it worked. With jQuery Mobile & PhoneGap I can do a lot of my UI work from a browser.

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PHP is not a requirement for creating iPhone web apps. You should be able to use whatever back end programming language you like. jQuery should work without needing a specific server side technology, as it executes on the client side.