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HTML5 iPhone Web Application Development

By : Alvin Crespo
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HTML5 iPhone Web Application Development

By: Alvin Crespo

Overview of this book

<p>Create compelling web applications specifically tailored for distribution on iOS Safari. Work through real world examples with references, and in-depth discussions on the approach; including its benefits and drawbacks.<br /><br />"HTML5 iPhone Web Application Development" strives to teach all levels of developers, beginners and professionals, the process of creating web applications for iOS Safari. Utilizing current industry standards for frontend development, learn to take advantage of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript to create compelling software.<br /><br />Start with reviewing current industry standards for frontend development, and end with creating a native application using the same codebase.</p> <p>Your journey will begin with an overview of current industry standards for frontend technology, quickly moving to solve real world issues; from creating a resizable or responsive gallery, to creating a single page application that utilizes the popular Backbone.js framework.</p> <p>"HTML5 iPhone Web Application Development" aims to make you an expert in developing web applications for the iOS Safari platform.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
HTML5 iPhone Web Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

HTML5 input types


HTML5 introduces several new input types that speed up the development of our applications. In total there are 13 new input types introduced with the HTML5 specification, including datetime, datetime-local, date, month, time, week, number, range, email, url, search, tel, and color. Unfortunately, only 10 of these new inputs are supported on iOS, but there's no need to worry since the type defaults to text automatically. This doesn't help us too much, but it does allow us to create polyfills for the types we need but aren't supported. However, either way, following is a breakdown of all the input types supported on iOS and a description of what each does:

Input type

Description

button

Represents a button with no additional semantics.

checkbox

Represents a state or option that can be toggled.

date

Represents a control for setting the element's value to a string representing a date.

datetime

Represents a control for setting the element's value to a string...