jQuery Mobile Core?

jQuery Mobile Core?

When comparing the standard jQuery to jQuery Mobile the mobile version is half the size. The mobile version also includes "plugins" for UI stuff like navigation, fields, buttons, etc...

Is there or will there be a "core" version of jQuery mobile without the UI stuff? I've heard that you can just use the regular jQuery and it'll work for both desktop and mobile (or it will), but what if you're developing a web application just for mobile? You wouldn't need support for IE or FireFox.

In my situation I'm writing an application that interfaces an iPod Touch with a web application through a UIWebView and provides access to different parts of the iPod Touch (kind of like Phonegap, but custom). I only need support for Mobile Safari, and I would like to use jQuery, but I would need it to be as light as possible.

The reason for only supporting Mobile Safari is I'm including jQuery with the application resource so it wouldn't be used by any other browser (so other browser specific things would just be used space).

My concern comes mostly from wanting the application load quickly, and a 24kb cache limit mentioned by the creator of BaseJS. (I'm not sure if this is still true, my target platform is iPod Touch 3rd gen).

Any insight on the subject would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Luke