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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

Cycling background images


So, how do we cycle background images when the very images we're using depend on our current resolution and orientation? That pretty much rules out cycling out a single image. Instead, we're going to have to swap out entire style sheets. Here we go:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="rotating0.css" id="rotatingBackgrounds" />

It's a pretty simple style sheet to begin with, but you could make it as complex as you like. We're not accounting for HD display versus SD displays for now. The iPhone 4 with Retina display (326 ppi) was released in June 2010. Ever since, the trend is moving toward HD screens anyway, so I'm simply assuming most people have updated their smartphone within the last two years and that they either have a high resolution screen or very soon will. Keep in mind also, that we are on the edge of the LTE (fourth generation mobile broadband) ubiquity. Someday soon, mobile speeds will rival home broadband speeds.

Now, is this really an excuse for laziness...