Sams Teach Yourself jQuery Mobile in 24 Hours

Hour 6. Knowing the Capabilities of Mobile Devices

What You’ll Learn In This Hour:

• The current screen resolutions of mobile devices

• The various extras mobile devices have

• The current selection of mobile operating systems

• jQuery Mobile support for various mobile devices

Since we have been through the basics of creating a mobile site, in this hour we focus on some of the aspects of a mobile device.

We start with the various screen sizes and resolutions of different mobile devices and move on to understand the screen depth. We then take a quick look at some current mobile operating systems and finally finish out the hour discussing the jQuery Mobile graded support matrix.

Understanding Screen Resolutions and PPI

Not all mobile devices ...