February 2012
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
6h 20m
English
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Main Features
jQuery Mobile started in August 2010 as a modern framework, including many patterns and best practices for multiplatform development. The main features of the framework are:
Cross platform, cross device, and cross browser
UI optimized for touch devices
Themeable and customizable design
Usage of nonintrusive semantic HTML5 code only, without the need of any JavaScript, CSS, or API knowledge
AJAX calls automatically to load dynamic content
Built on the well-known and supported jQuery core
Lightweight size, 12Kb compressed
Progressive enhancement
Accessibility support
We’ve already discussed some of these features. Let’s deeply analyze others.
Use of Nonintrusive Semantic HTML5
I know you are hungry: you need to see some code. Here you have it. jQuery Mobile creates webapps from standard and semantic HTML5, perfectly suitable for search engine optimization (SEO) and web performance optimization (WPO) purposes:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <title>My first jQuery Mobile code</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.0/jquery.mobile- 1.0.min.css" /> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.4.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.0/ jquery.mobile-1.0.min.js"></script> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> </head> <body> <div data-role="page" data-theme="a"> <div data-role="header"> <h1>jQuery Mobile</h1> </div> <div data-role="content"> <ul data-role="listview" ...
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