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Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile - Second Edition

By : Andy Matthews, Shane Gliser
Book Image

Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile - Second Edition

By: Andy Matthews, Shane Gliser

Overview of this book

<p>jQuery Mobile is a mobile-centric web framework developed by the jQuery team. The project focuses on building a framework compatible with the ever-increasing variety of smartphones and tablet computers on the market. The jQuery Mobile framework plays well with other frameworks and platforms, such as PhoneGap and Backbone.</p> <p>Automate repetitive tasks easily and painlessly with the Grunt task runner, build a fully responsive, gorgeous photography website, and learn how to mix and match jQuery Mobile 1.4.5 into existing websites and how to deploy those changes to content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal, and HarpJS. jQuery Mobile aims to reach everyone, and so does this book. It will enhance your mobile knowledge and help you to create versatile, unique sites quickly and easily.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Full-site links beyond the industry standard


The industry standard of simply including a full-site link fails to support the user's mental state. When a user navigates around on the mobile site, they're giving a pretty clear indication of what they want to look at. Supporting the user's mental model, as they transition from mobile to full site, is more tedious, but crafting a good user experience always is.

Picture this. Sally is looking around on our mobile site because she wants to buy from us. She has actually taken time to surf down or search for the product she wants to see. However, due to the constraints of mobile, we made a few conscious choices to not put all the information there. We only included the high points that market research showed people really cared about. At this point, she might be a little bit frustrated as she taps on the full-site link to try to get more information. The full-site link was coded the traditional (lazy) way and took her to the root of the full site...