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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

Sample HTML5 forms


Now we're going to take a close look at some code, including the markup, scripts, and styles. Some of this you may already know and for the most part the only emphasis here will be on the new HTML5 inputs and attributes. We'll look at how they get implemented into a form, what their effect is on the UI controls, and how to leverage this new technology into our scripts. But first, let's do some setup work so that everything is consistent across our pages.

Setup work

The first thing we need to do is open up the index.html file for our forms page. Once we have this open, you'll see that we have the old template that we initially created at the beginning of this book. As our applications have evolved, we must update this template to reflect those changes, so let's do the following tasks:

  • Include the forms styling (forms.css) after our main styles

  • Update the navigation to reflect our new menu

  • Include our navigation script (App.Nav.js) and our forms script (App.Forms.js)

Including...