February 2012
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
6h 20m
English
Content preview from jQuery Mobile: Up and Running
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Adobe Dreamweaver Support
Starting from version CS5.5, Adobe Dreamweaver has official support of jQuery Mobile inside the tool. You can download a free trial from http://www.adobe.com/go/dreamweaver.
Warning
The first version of Dreamweaver CS5.5 includes jQuery Mobile alpha 3 and not the latest release. Check http://mobilexweb.com/go/dwjqm for instructions on how to update to the latest version. You can always start with alpha 3 and change it manually. Later versions of Dreamweaver will include the latest stable version at the time of release.
The support includes the ability to start a page using jQuery Mobile. To do that, just open Dreamweaver, go to File → New, select Page from Sample → Mobile Starters, and you will have the ability to select from three templates (as seen in Figure 2-2):
jQuery Mobile from CDN
jQuery Mobile with local files
jQuery Mobile with local files, including PhoneGap support (to be covered later in this book)
Every template starts with a jQuery Mobile document with four pages linked between one another.
Figure 2-2. Dreamweaver from CS5.5 supports jQuery Mobile templates from scratch.
The best part of using Dreamweaver is not the templates, but the code syntax
assistant. You can start typing data-
to receive a list of possible jQuery Mobile data-*
values. Or you can receive a list of possible values for each
data-* jQuery Mobile attribute (at least defined up to ...
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