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Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile

By : Shane Gliser
Book Image

Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile

By: Shane Gliser

Overview of this book

<p>jQuery Mobile is a touch-optimized web framework (also known as a JavaScript library or a mobile framework) currently being developed by the jQuery project team. The development focuses on creating a framework compatible with a wide variety of smartphones and tablet computers made necessary by the growing but heterogeneous tablet and smartphone market. The jQuery Mobile framework is compatible with other mobile app frameworks and platforms such as PhoneGap, Worklight, and more.<br /><br />Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile reflects the author’s years of experience and exposes every hidden secret which will ease your mobile app development. With just a smattering of design and user experience thrown in, going through this book will allow you to confidently say, “yes, I can do that.”<br /><br />We’ll start out with effective mobile prototyping and then move directly to the core of what every one of your mobile sites will need. Then, we’ll move on to the fancy stuff.<br /><br />After creating some basic business templates and a universal JavaScript, we will move into the more interesting side of mobile development but we always try to keep an eye on progressive enhancement. jQuery Mobile is all about reaching everyone. So is this book.<br /><br />"Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile" will take your basic mobile knowledge and help you make versatile, unique sites quickly and easily.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Client-side templating


(In a grumpy old man's voice) Back in my day, we rendered all the pages on the server, and we liked it! LOL! Times are changing and we are seeing a massive ground swell in client-side templating frameworks. At their heart, they're pretty much all the same in that they take JSON data and apply an HTML-based template contained within a script tag.

If you know what JSON is, skip this paragraph. I spent a little time last chapter discussing this, but just in case you skipped ahead and don't know, JSON is JavaScript written in such a way that it can be used as a data exchange format. It's more efficient than XML and is instantly interpretable by the browser in an object-oriented fashion. JSON can request data even across domains using JSONP. For more on JSON, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON. For more on JSONP, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP.

All these client-side libraries have some sort of notation in them to show where the data goes and gives ways to implement...