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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

Cycling background images


So, how do we cycle background images when the very images we're using depend on our current resolution and orientation? That pretty much rules out cycling out a single image. Instead we're going to have to swap out entire stylesheets. Here we go:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="rotating0.css" id="rotatingBackgrounds" />

It's a pretty simple stylesheet to begin with but you could make it as complex as you like. We're not accounting for HD display versus SD displays for now. The iPhone 4 with Retina display (326 ppi) was released in June of 2010. Ever since, the trend is moving toward HD screens anyway, so I'm simply assuming most people have updated their smartphone within the last two years and that they either have a high resolution screen or very soon will. Keep in mind also that we are on the edge of the LTE (fourth generation mobile broadband) ubiquity. That means that very soon, mobile will be faster than most home broadband speeds.

Now, is this really an...