HTML5 Mobile Development Cookbook

Chapter 4. Building Fast and Responsive Websites

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Building pages using basic HTML5 markup

• Using CSS3 features for progressive enhancement

• Applying responsive design with media query

• Using dynamic loading

• Applying user agent detection

• Adding mobile bookmark bubble to the home page

• Building Contact page with textarea and autogrow forms

• Making buttons with instant response

• Hiding WebKit chrome

• Building a mobile sitemap

Introduction

On mobile devices, bandwidth is not always as good as on a desktop computer. If you are on a slow 3G network, things can get loaded much slower than on a Wi-Fi hotspot. Even for Wi-Fi connections, many mobile browsers process slower than desktop computers. So when we create mobile sites, they have to ...