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Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile

By : Shane Gliser
Book Image

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

Another responsive approach – RESS


Responsive Design + Server Side Components (RESS) is an idea that makes a lot of sense. The concept is that you use a server-side mobile detection method such as WURFL (http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/). Then you send up a different version of page components, different sized images, and so on. We could then change the wrappers around the page content and the navigation to use jQuery Mobile just as easily as any home-brewed markup. The beauty of this approach is that everybody gets the content that is right for them without the bloat of typical responsive design and it's always on the same URL.

The first time I saw this idea proposed in writing was in an article at http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1392 by Luke Wroblewski (https://twitter.com/lukew) in September 2011. In it, he outlines the very performance problem we now face with images. Luke meant this as a way of doing pure responsive web design without any kind of mobile framework.

WURFL can tell you...