3 Prototype mobile apps with simple HTML, CSS and JS components.
7 - Clone the repo `git clone git@github.com:maker/ratchet.git` or just [download](http://maker.github.com/ratchet/ratchet.zip) the bundled CSS and JS
8 - [Read the docs](http://maker.github.com/ratchet) to learn about the components and how to get a prototype on your phone
9 - We will have example apps to check out very soon!
11 Take note that our master branch is our active, unstable development branch and that if you're looking to download a stable copy of the repo, check the [tagged downloads](https://github.com/maker/ratchet/tags).
15 Ratchet was developed to support iOS 5+ for iPhone. Questions or discussions about Ratchet should happen in the [Google group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/goratchet) or hit us up on Twitter [@goRatchet](http://www.twitter.com/goratchet).
17 ## Reporting bugs & contributing
19 Please file a Github issue to [report a bug](http://github.com/maker/ratchet/issues). When reporting a bug, be sure to follow the [contributor guidelines](https://github.com/maker/ratchet/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
23 A small list of "gotchas" are provided below for developers starting to work with Ratchet
25 - Ratchet is designed to respond to touch events from a mobile device. In order to use mouse click events (for desktop browsing and testing), you have a few options:
26 - Enable touch event emulation in Chrome (found in the overrides tab in the web inspector preferences)
27 - Use a javascript library like fingerblast.js to emulate touch events (depending on the user agent)
28 - Script tags containing javascript will not be executed on pages that are loaded with push.js. If you would like to attach event handlers to elements on other pages, document-level event delegation is a common solution.
32 Ratchet is just getting started. Here are some of the immediate features we're thinking about:
34 - Shelf (exposable left hand navigation a la Path or Facebook)
38 - More list views options
39 - Improved active states (especially for lists)
40 - Docking list dividers
41 - Touch library for richer touch events (swipes, long press, etc)
43 - Hiding title bar (hides with scroll)
45 Even these are just the short-term goals though. We eventually want to extend Ratchet beyond the prototying for iPhone and create HTML/CSS/JS components for iPad and Android devices. Our dream is that Ratchet becomes the best way to create mobile experiences with web standard languages.
51 - http://twitter.com/dhg
52 - http://github.com/dhgamache
56 - http://twitter.com/connors
57 - http://github.com/connors
61 - http://twitter.com/fat
62 - http://github.com/fat
67 Ratchet is licensed under the [MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).