<li><strong>Compatible with all major mobile & desktop platforms</strong> - iOS, Android, Blackberry, Palm WebOS, Nokia/Symbian, Windows Mobile, Opera Mobile/Mini, Firefox Mobile and all modern desktop browsers.</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight size</strong> (~20k compressed for all mobile functionality) and minimal image dependencies for speed.</li>
<li><strong>Progressive enhancement</strong> approach brings core content and functionality to all mobile, tablet and desktop platforms and a rich, installed application-like experience on newer mobile platforms.</li>
<li><strong>Automatic initialization</strong> by using HTML5 <code> data-role</code> attributes in the HTML markup to act as the trigger to automatically initialize all jQuery Mobile widgets found on a page.</li>
<li><strong>Accessibility</strong> features such as WAI-ARIA are also included to ensure that the pages work for screen readers (e.g. VoiceOver in iOS) and other assistive technologies.</li>
<li><strong>Touch and mouse event support</strong> streamline the process of supporting touch, mouse, and cursor focus-based user input methods with a simple API. </li>