Chapter 18. Mobile development with jQuery Mobile

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

  • Understand mobile development with jQuery Mobile.

  • Create a mobile-friendly page.

Ask executives in an organization what they want their website to do, and they’ll say “be mobile.” Of course, they’ll say that without any inkling of what exactly the phrase means, as if there’s some magic potion to make a site work well in a mobile web browser, such as a phone or an iPad. Selling the magic potion to executives is already a multimillion-dollar business. Luckily for you, you’ll soon find out that there’s really no magic potion involved in making a site mobile. So when the boss wants to outsource the “mobile development project” for ...

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