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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

The resulting first page


Let's have a look at the final product of our work. On the left side, we have the rendered page in portrait view; and on the right, we have the landscape view:

It is important to test your designs in both orientations. It can be rather embarrassing when someone comes along later and breaks your work by doing nothing more than turning their phone.

This is how it looks on the iPad. There is some matter of debate in the industry as to whether or not the iPad counts as mobile, since it has enough resolution and a large enough screen to view normal desktop sites, especially if viewed in landscape mode. People who advocate the desktop view are forgetting a very important fact. The iPad and all the other tablets, such as Kindle Fire, Nook Color, and Google Nexus devices, are still touch interfaces. While full sites are still perfectly readable, interaction points may still be tiny targets. If it's a touch interface, your customer will be better served by jQuery Mobile.