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jQuery Mobile First Look

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jQuery Mobile First Look

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
jQuery Mobile First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Reading, Writing, Communicating: Content

Trying to communicate and provide information in an effective way can be a little trickier when we are targeting mobile devices; their screens are relatively small (ridiculously small if we think about our 24 inch iMac resting on our office desk), and we have already understood that we cannot display content in the way we used to, back in the days when desktop computers were the only way to access data on the Internet.

With the advent of mobile browsing, new solutions had to be found.

The jQuery Mobile framework provides a number of tools, widgets, and components which are extremely helpful in formatting our content and make it look elegant and put-together even on our beloved smaller-screen devices – well, especially for them!

In fact, the difficulty in designing, formatting, and correctly showing a page on a mobile device is going to become a no-brainer using the set of elements jQuery Mobile provides in order to allow for an easy styling...