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jQuery Mobile Cookbook

By : Chetan Jain
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jQuery Mobile Cookbook

By: Chetan Jain

Overview of this book

jQuery Mobile is an award winning, HTML5/CSS3 based open source cross-platform UI framework. It offers a very cool and highly customizable UX. It is built on the popular jQuery library and uses declarative coding making it easy to use and learn. It is the market leader today considering the numerous browsers and platforms that it supports."jQuery Mobile Cookbook" presents over a hundred recipes written in a simple and easy manner. You can quickly learn and start writing code immediately. Advanced topics such as using scripts to manipulate, customize, and extend the framework are also covered. These tips address your common everyday problems. The book is very handy for both beginner and experienced jQuery Mobile developers.You start by developing simple apps using various controls and learn to customize them. Later you explore using advanced aspects like configurations, events, and methods.Develop single and multi-page applications. Use caching to boost performance. Use custom transitions, icon sprites, styles, and themes. Learn advanced features like configurations, events, and methods. Explore future trends by using HTML5 new features and semantics with jQuery Mobile."jQuery Mobile Cookbook" is an easy read and is packed with practical tips and screenshots.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
jQuery Mobile Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


HTML5 introduces new semantics and many new cool features, such as Application Cache, 2D Canvas, Geolocation, Local and Session Storage, Web Workers, and support for audio and video. The jQuery Mobile framework is built on HTML5 and CSS3, and provides excellent support for these new semantics and new features. This chapter introduces some of these features that you can use in your jQuery Mobile apps.

Note

There are many resources on the web for learning HTML5. To mention a few, you can read more at HTML5 Rocks (http://www.html5rocks.com/en), HTML5 Demos (http://www.html5demos.com), and the Mozilla Developer Network (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/HTML5).

The support for HTML5 elements and features on various browsers and platforms is varied. You will have to take care while using a particular feature and ensure that it works on your target platforms. This level of support continues to improve with every passing day.

Note

http://www.caniuse.com has a good reference...