JQuery mobile: up and running

"Would you like to build one mobile web application that works on iPad and Kindle Fire as well as iPhone and Android smartphones? This introductory guide to jQuery Mobile shows you how. Through a series of hands-on exercises, you'll learn the best ways to use this framework's many interface components to build customizable, multiplatform apps. You don't need any programming skills or previous experience with jQuery to get started. By the time you finish this book, you'll know how to create responsive, Ajax-based interfaces that work on a variety of smartphones and tablets, using jQuery Mobile and semantic HTML5 code"--Publisher.

Table of Contents; Preface; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Chapter 1. The Mobile Platform; Why Do We Need jQuery Mobile?; Myths of the Mobile Web; It's not the mobile web; it's just the Web!; You don't need to do anything special when designing for the mobile web; One website should work for all devices (desktop, mobile, TV, etc.); Just create an HTML file with a width of 240 pixels, and you have a mobile website; Mobile Webapps; So, Again ... Why Do We Need jQuery Mobile?; What Is jQuery Mobile?; What jQuery Mobile Is Not.

The FrameworkThe Mobile and Tablet World; Device Categories; Mobile phones; Low-end mobile devices; Mid-end/high-end mobile devices; Smartphones; Tablets; Operating Systems and Browsers; jQuery Mobile Compatibility; Mobile graded browser support; HTML5 and CSS3; Main Features; Use of Nonintrusive Semantic HTML5; Progressive Enhancement; Accessibility Support; Testing Webapps; Emulators and Simulators; Remote Labs; Chapter 2. Starting with the Framework; Preparing the Document; Requirements; Hosting the Files; Using a CDN; Latest builds; Main HTML5 Template; The viewport.

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