July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
13h 31m
English
Content preview from Programming the Mobile Web
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Chapter 9. Ajax, RIA, and HTML 5
Wow! Ajax, HTML 5, and RIA? How do these things fit together on a mobile device? We all know that Ajax is just a JavaScript technique, so that part is obvious. For mobile browsers, HTML 5 is also more or less a JavaScript thing, with some bonus markup features (the new technologies borrowed by the mobile browsers from the HTML 5 draft are almost all new JavaScript APIs that will work with HTML). Rich Internet Application development also involves the implementation of some JavaScript UI pattern designs.
Ajax Support
Ajax is especially important for mobile devices. The ability to download only the data to be updated and avoid unnecessary page loads is key for mobile browsers. However, Ajax is not part of the official standards, and support can vary from device to device.
Note
If your mobile website gets content using Ajax, you should implement Google’s proposal for search engine optimization (SEO). You can find more information about this at http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling.
Let’s first verify the browsers’ support for the XMLHttpRequest native
object (see Table 9-1).
Cross-domain requests are not compatible with mobile browsers today
because of supposed security
problems, but you can bypass this problem with a simple proxy on your
server.
Table 9-1. XMLHttpRequest support compatibility table
Browser/platform | XMLHttpRequest support |
Safari | Yes |
Android browser | Yes |
Symbian/S60 | Yes since 3rd edition |
Nokia Series 40 | No before 6th edition |
webOS | Yes |
BlackBerry | No before ... |
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