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Mastering jQuery Mobile

Mastering jQuery Mobile

By : Chip Lambert, Patwardhan
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Mastering jQuery Mobile

Mastering jQuery Mobile

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By: Chip Lambert, Patwardhan
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Overview of this book

You've started down the path of jQuery Mobile, now begin mastering some of jQuery Mobile's higher level topics. Go beyond jQuery Mobile's documentation and master one of the hottest mobile technologies out there. Previous JavaScript and PHP experience can help you get the most out of this book.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Getting Started
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1. Getting Started
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Overview
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Installing XAMPP for Windows
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Installing XAMPP for Mac OS X
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Installing Aptana Studio
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Downloading jQuery Mobile
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Using the framework via the CDN
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Seeing the framework in action
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Summary
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2. Tools and Testing
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2. Tools and Testing
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Overview
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Theming with jQuery ThemeRoller
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Using Aptana Studio 3
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Testing with Screenfly
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Summary
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3. Mobile Design
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3. Mobile Design
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Overview
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Responsive web design techniques
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Feature detection with Modernizr
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Device detection with WURFL
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RESS introduction
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Summary
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4. Call to Action – Our Main Project
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4. Call to Action – Our Main Project
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Overview
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Pages
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Panels
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Popups
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Toolbars
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Navbars
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5. Navigation
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5. Navigation
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Links and page navigation
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Working with transitions and effects
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Navigating with swipe gestures
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Working with page loaders
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6. Controls and Widgets
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6. Controls and Widgets
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Widgets
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Input with touch
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Working with plugins
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Accessibility
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7. Working with Data
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7. Working with Data
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Overview
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Setting up our database
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A dab of PHP
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Fetching data
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Displaying information
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Some more PHP
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Forms and validation
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Inserting data into the database
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8. Finishing Touches
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8. Finishing Touches
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Overview
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Creating custom icons
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Introduction to Cordova
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Configuring Cordova
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Notifications
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Geolocation
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Offline storage
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9. The Next Level
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9. The Next Level
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Overview
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Working with Node.js
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Working with RequireJS and Backbone.js
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Building a WordPress mobile theme
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10. Mobile Best Practices and Efficiency
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10. Mobile Best Practices and Efficiency
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Best practices for design and layout
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Best practices for images
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Best practices for CSS
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jQuery optimizations
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jQuery Mobile optimizations
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Performance tools for optimization
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Index
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Best practices for CSS

When you are using a framework such as jQuery Mobile to build a website, you may not use all the components and widgets provided by this framework, which means that there is a lot of CSS that is never being utilized. To improve the performance of your website / web page, optimizing the CSS can prove greatly useful. Let's take a look at some of the CSS optimizations that we can implement to improve your page performance.

Customizing the jQuery Mobile download

You can customize your jQuery Mobile download by selecting the specific modules that you will need in your application. To download a custom build of jQuery Mobile, use the download builder available at http://jQuerymobile.com/download-builder.

Custom builds will reduce the library's file size. They also reduce the time taken by the library to spin up and start executing. All of this helps reduce the time taken to initialize the page. Let's take a look at a small example of a custom build, which includes the following...

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