Building Desktop apps by JQuery Mobile

Question

I want to create an application for desktop computers.

And I want to use the Power of JQuery Mobile.

But by default, JQuery adds each control on a row. it looks nice in a mobile phone, like the image below:

But it will be ugly in big screens:

My question is: Is there any way to design application with JQuery Mobile, multi-column style?

And how to create Horizontally scroll applications with JQuery Mobile? (I mean, just like windows 8 metro apps that don't have vertical scroll in pages. they have horizontal scroll in pages)

Answer 1

jQuery Mobile works very well with desktop, too. Just use a grid to structure your content.

I think the real advantage of jQuery Mobile will sooner or later be, that you only need to write something once and can deploy on every device from desktop to tablet to smartphone to whatever. Although there is some way to go for jQuery Mobile, this would be the direction I would want to it develop into.

There are a bunch of horizontal scroll plugins available. Try JQuery Mobile pagaintion for pages,photoswipe for images or overthrow for content.