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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 on the server


If you simply must get all mobile people to your mobile site, you'll need to do detection on the server using a tool like Wireless Universal Resource File (WURFL) (http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/). It is the ultimate community-maintained database of wireless device descriptors. It's basically user-agent sniffing, but with an up-to-date, well maintained, community database. WURFL can tell you all kinds of useful things about each device that visits you.

The link http://www.scientiamobile.com/wurflCapability/ will give you a complete listing of WURFL's capabilities. We'll get into the nuts and bolts of this in Chapter 9.