C H A P T E R 7
Creating Responsive Web Apps
There are two approaches to targeting multiple platforms with a web app. The first is to create a different version of the app for each kind of device you want to target: desktop, smartphone, tablet, and so on. I’ll give you some examples of how to do this in Chapter 8.
The other approach, and the topic of this chapter, is to create a responsive web app, which simply means that the web app adapts to the capabilities of the device it is running on. I like this approach because it doesn’t draw a hard distinction between mobile and “normal” devices.
This is important because the capabilities of smartphones, tablets, and desktops blur together. Many mobile browsers already have good HTML5 support, and ...
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