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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

Chapter 9. Integrating jQuery Mobile into Existing Sites

We can't all be lucky enough to only work on new sites. Maybe the customer is unwilling to pay for a mobile first site or maybe they like their desktop site as it is and just want a mobile site. Your mobile implementation could be the gateway to future business with the client. We need to be ready with a few techniques to wedge jQuery Mobile into their existing site.

What we'll cover is as follows:

  • Detecting mobile – server-side, client-side, and the combination of the two

  • Mobilizing full site pages – the hard way

  • Mobilizing full site pages – the easy way