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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

Custom fonts


Custom fonts are present on their full site (and, thus, part of their branding). These fonts will work just as well on mobile. Platforms like iOS, Android, and the latest BlackBerry fully support @font-face CSS. Older editions of BlackBerry and Windows Phone may or may not support @font-face depending on the model that users have. For anyone that does not support @font-face, they will simply be presented with standard web fonts as you specify in the font-family rule. There are many different web font providers. A few are mentioned as follows:

For our project, we're going to use Google Web Fonts. We'll need to include these lines in the <head> tag of every page that we want to use them in. Since we'll probably be using them everywhere, let's just include these lines in our /includes/meta.php file.

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