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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

Supporting the full range of device sizes – responsive web design


Responsive Web Design (RWD) is the concept of making a single page work for every device size. That means, we're not just talking about mobile phones with a 3.5 inch screen. That's only the beginning. We are going to support tablets of all sizes, and even desktop resolutions. For more on the concept of RWD, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design.

In order to make RWD work, let's set a few breakpoints based on common devices and resolution breakpoints. I'm going to start by redefining the default gallery item size to 50 percent. Why? It just feels more comfortable to me, while browsing on a smartphone in portrait mode. So, here are the breakpoints. Let's put them into the chapter8.css file:

.gallery li { 
float: left; width: 50%; }

/* iPhone Horizontal -------------------*/
@media all and (min-width: 480px) { 
.gallery li { width: 33.33333333%; }
} 

/* iPad Vertical -----------------------*/
@media only screen...