Chapter 1. The Mobile Landscape
In the beginning, there was the iPhone. Before the iPhone, mobile websites were dumbed down versions of their desktop counterparts. Few mobile browsers supported JavaScript, and most transformed pages to fit them onto a small screen. Safari for iPhone was a real web browser, with JavaScript and CSS. Not only that, it was a cutting-edge browser. A website for iPhone could take advantage of the nascent suite of tools in what is now HTML5.
Today there are hundreds of mobile devices on the market. They vary a lot, but they all share one thing: an advanced web browser and a touch interface.
The difference between a touch device and a desktop
The vast majority of touch devices in the world are mobile devices. On the ...
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