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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

Mobilizing full-site pages – the easy way


There is nothing easier and cleaner than just creating a standalone jQuery Mobile page. Let's just do that and simply import the page we want with AJAX. We can then pull out the parts we want and leave the rest.

The biggest disadvantage to this approach is mostly academic. Progressive enhancement is shot. The site completely breaks for anyone who doesn't have JavaScript on their device. My contention is that it probably doesn't matter. I can't speak for everywhere, but here in the United States, if you're not on a smartphone, you're not on the web with your device. Simple as that. There are of course exceptions that only prove the rule. However, if your market is different, you would want to consider if this option is right for you. So, let's continue.

On any given page, all we'll really need is a simple redirect for anyone on mobile using one of the many methods we've laid out. Then, just use a simple location.replace. This code sample does a little...