jQuery Mobile was first announced as an independent project on August 11, 2010, and described on the jQuery blog as the work that we've been doing to bring jQuery to mobile devices. Not only is the core jQuery library being improved to work across all of the major mobile platforms, but we're also working to release a complete, unified, mobile UI framework.

The jQuery Project developers worked hard (and are still working hard) on making jQuery Core work well against the major web browsers, and bug fixes and improvements are released periodically in order to make sure that standards are kept high.

The jQuery Mobile project has caught on to the promising augment of mobile sites and interest in the mobile technology, and is now trying to extend its reach of jQuery to help build applications capable of running along with the so-called "desktop" Web.