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Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile

By : Shane Gliser
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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

HTML5 Web Storage


HTML5 Web Storage is ridiculously simple if you haven't messed with it already. If you have, skip to the next paragraph. There are really only two forms of web storage: localStorage, and sessionStorage. localStorage will keep the information indefinitely. sessionStorage will store only for the length of a single session. It's a simple key/value paired system. Everything is string-based. So you'll need to convert the values to other formats as needed, once you've extracted them back out of storage. Check out http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_webstorage.asp for more information.

Now, this gets interesting with the definition of session. Do not confuse the session on your server with the browser session. The user session on your server might be set to expire within 20 minutes or so. However, just because your server session has expired, doesn't mean that your browser knows anything about that. HTML5 session storage will persist until the browser is actually closed.

This...