February 2012
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
6h 20m
English
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Chapter 1. The Mobile Platform
If you are reading this book, you are probably a web designer or a web developer, maybe a jQuery fan or a webapp developer. Before coding, we need to address the mobile ecosystem and where jQuery Mobile fits into it. Let’s do it.
Why Do We Need jQuery Mobile?
The first question that you should be asking yourself is why does jQuery Mobile exist? Why do we need something special for mobile devices if there are plenty of mobile browsers rendering standard desktop websites?
To answer these questions, let me copy and paste some extracts from my other book Programming the Mobile Web (O’Reilly). By the way, I asked for permission from myself for doing that.
Myths of the Mobile Web
As the Web has moved onto mobile devices, developers have told themselves a lot of stories about what this means for their work. While some of those stories are true, others are misleading, confusing, or even dangerous.
It’s not the mobile web; it’s just the Web!
I’ve heard this many times in the last few years, and it’s true. It’s really the same Web. Think about your life. You don’t have another email account just for your mobile. (Okay, I know some guys who do, but I don’t believe that’s typical.)
You read about the latest NBA game on your favorite site, perhaps ESPN; you don’t have a desktop news source and a different mobile news source. You really don’t want another social network for your mobile; you want to use the same Facebook or Twitter account as the one you used on your desktop. ...
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