Without a doubt, I have to say that jQTouch is one of my favorite plugins for jQuery. The prospect of being able to develop web applications that work on WebKit based browsers (specifically mobile ones) is very appealing.

Personally, I do not own a Mac (yet) so creating applications for the iPhone was looking like it was going to be incredibly difficult if not impossible. It was at this point that I first found jQTouch. This changed everything. In very little time I was putting together entire applications that was working on my iPhone.

I have been tracking their progress very carefully thought their SVN releases and I have been constantly impressed with how rapidly they have been improving the product. Beta 1 was noticeably slow when you did a vertical scroll on a page. This has been addressed and it now functions like a very close to a native iPhone App.

One of the most impressive things I have seen is that it somehow is able to grab the location from the iPhone. I have not dived that deep into their code yet to see how they pulled it off, but it is incredibly impressive.

In a nutshell, if I had an “Editor’s Choice”, I would give it to them without thinking twice about it. They have a real shot to change the way you see development for the iPhone. In fact, I am using this plugin as the cornerstone for a personal project that I will be sure to tell you all about here soon.

I suggest you check this one out even if you are not planning on developing an iPhone App. You can find it at: http://www.jqtouch.com/