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HTML, CSS, and JavaScript® Mobile Development For Dummies®
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HTML, CSS, and JavaScript® Mobile Development For Dummies®

by William Harrel
September 2011
Beginner to intermediate
452 pages
10h 52m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 5

Thinking Small, Smaller, Smallest

In This Chapter

arrow Understanding the differences between designing for handheld verses desktop devices

arrow Understanding the difference between smartphones and feature phones

arrow Exploring mobile operating systems and mobile browsers

arrow Introducing the user agent

arrow Compensating for differences in mobile user interfaces

If you're into gadgetry, especially wireless mobile communications and entertainment gadgetry, this is an exciting time to be alive. Apple's recent release of the iPad, and the onslaught of ensuing competing products hitting the market, is rapidly changing the way we think about and use the mobile web. These new tablet devices — and their smaller siblings, the latest round of smartphones — are, in effect, minicomputers, especially when it comes to accessing and using the Internet. These two technologies — full-blown computers (desktops and notebooks) and wireless handheld devices (smartphones and tablets) — are on a fast track to a fusion ...

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