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Primefaces Theme development

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Primefaces Theme development

Overview of this book

Developing stunning themes for web applications has never been easier! PrimeFaces delivers a powerful set of features that enables JSF developers to create and customize awesome themes on the web. It is very easy to use because it comes as a single JAR file and requires no mandatory XML configuration. With more than 30 out-of-the-box themes, jQuery integration, a mobile UI toolkit, Ajax Push technology, and much more, PrimeFaces takes JSF application development to a whole new level! This book is a hands-on example-rich guide to creating and customizing PrimeFaces themes using available tools. Beginning with creating a JSF project and integrating the PrimeFaces library, this book will introduce you to the features of theme components, how these are structured, and how PrimeFaces uses JQuery UI to apply a theme to your application. You will learn to examine and change the CSS rules and get creative by setting standard icons and adding new icons to them. You will use a combination of JavaScript and CSS to enhance your application with help of scheduler component and go on to adapt and package your custom theme so that it is compatible with the Resource Manager. Finally, you will explore PrimeFaces mobile apps, ensuring themes are compatible with your mobile applications best practices for theme design.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
PrimeFaces Theme Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Restrictions of real estate mobile device screens are simply smaller


By necessity, mobile screens are small because a mobile phone has to fit into a person's pocket or purse. The small size of mobile screens limits the controls and amount of the content that appear on them. So, there is an obvious change in the user experience between desktop web and mobile web interactions.

The smaller screens on touch devices reduce the context, which makes it difficult for users to find an overview of the page, the various options that are available, and remember prior content on the page. It also causes inaccurate clicks and error-prone typing.

Let's consider a page with a long form having various inputs and buttons. When a user scrolls down the page, the title of the page and previously entered data will disappear from the viewport. Without this information (or context), it is very difficult to get the meaning of the currently visible fields. So in this instance, we can have an overview or the title of...