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jQuery HOTSHOT

By : Dan Wellman
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jQuery HOTSHOT

By: Dan Wellman

Overview of this book

jQuery is used by millions of people to write JavaScript more easily and more quickly. It has become the standard tool for web developers and designers to add dynamic, interactive elements to their sites, smoothing out browser inconsistencies and reducing costly development time.jQuery Hotshot walks you step by step through 10 projects designed to familiarise you with the jQuery library and related technologies. Each project focuses on a particular subject or section of the API, but also looks at something related, like jQuery's official templates, or an HTML5 feature like localStorage. Build your knowledge of jQuery and related technologies.Learn a large swathe of the API, up to and including jQuery 1.9, by completing the ten individual projects covered in the book. Some of the projects that we'll work through over the course of this book include a drag-and-drop puzzle game, a browser extension, a multi-file drag-and-drop uploader, an infinite scroller, a sortable table, and a heat map. Learn which jQuery methods and techniques to use in which situations with jQuery Hotshots.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
jQuery HOTSHOT
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Mission Briefing


In this project we'll build a simple application that looks for questions on stack overflow that have an un-awarded bounty on them. We'll call it Bounty Hunter. It will contain just a few individual pages, but will be made to feel like a native application rather than as a standard website.

Although sites and apps built with jQuery Mobile will work perfectly fine on a laptop or desktop, jQuery Mobile subscribes to the mobile-first philosophy of building the smallest layouts first.

This is the layout that we'll be focusing on throughout this project. If you don't have a smartphone or other capable mobile device, the example app we'll be building will still work in a normal desktop browser.

The app we'll be building in this project will look as shown in the following screenshot:

Why Is It Awesome?

jQuery Mobile offers full support and, importantly, consistency across all of the major modern smartphones and tablets. It also offers limited support to a much wider sphere of common...