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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

Detecting and redirecting using JavaScript


Naturally, this is not going to hit everyone in the mobile market. Even in the United States, the smart phone penetration rate is only 56 percent (check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_smartphone_penetration); but does it really matter?

If this approach only reaches 56 percent of the market at best, is it truly an appropriate solution? Yes, but how can this be? The following two reasons explain it best:

  • People who do not have a smart phone don't usually have a data plan. Surfing the web becomes financially prohibitive. Most people without smart phones and data plans won't be reaching you.

  • People who have old smart phones like BlackBerry 5 or earlier, may have a data plan. However, those devices have browsers that are barely worth the name and their users know it. They might hit your site, but it's not likely, and their existence is dropping quickly.

It's likely that almost anyone who hits your site with a smart phone will respond as...