We have come a long way over the last nine chapters, covering various aspects of the jQuery Mobile framework. We started off by setting up the environment to work on a project using jQuery Mobile. We set up Aptana Studio and XAMPP to set up a small DB and host our PHP code. We looked at the various tools and techniques for responsive web design, such as RESS, Modernizer, and WURFL. We also looked at some testing tools, such as Screenfly. We discovered various jQuery Mobile widgets and used them to create a jQuery Mobile web application of our own. Further, we used Cordova to create a hybrid mobile application. All of this is cool, and we also have an application to show, but are we really done yet?

No. We are not done yet. In actual production environments, just having a pretty-looking, fully functional, bug-free application is just not good enough; it also has to be fast. A recent study revealed that an average user expects a web page on the...