Beginning Smartphone Web Development: Building Javascript, by Gail Frederick, Rajesh Lal

By Gail Frederick, Rajesh Lal

Today’s net 2.0 functions (think fb and Twitter) move a long way past the confines of the computing device and are frequent on cellular units. The cellular internet has turn into tremendously renowned given the good fortune of the iPhone and BlackBerry, the significance of home windows cellular, and the emergence of Palm Pre (and its webOS platform). At Apress, we're lucky to have Gail Frederick of the well known education website study the cellular internet provide her specialist recommendation in Beginning phone net Development. during this booklet, Gail teaches the internet criteria and basics particular to smartphones and different feature-driven cell phones and devices.
* indicates you the way to construct interactive cellular websites utilizing net applied sciences optimized for browsers in smartphones
* info markup basics, layout rules, content material model, usability, and interoperability
* Explores cross-platform criteria and most sensible practices for the cellular internet authored by means of the W3C, dotMobi, and comparable organizations
* Dives deeps into the function units of the preferred cellular browsers, together with WebKit, Chrome, Palm Pre webOS, Pocket IE, Opera cellular, and Skyfire

By the tip of this ebook, you’ll have the educational, instruments, and strategies for developing strong cellular internet studies on any of those structures on your favourite phone or different cellular device.
<h3>You’ll find out how to:</h3> * construct interactive cellular websites that agree to criteria and most sensible practices.
* boost sites utilizing the markup languages of the cellular internet: XHTML-MP, instant CSS, and WML.
* Use cellular JavaScript and Ajax for client-side net interactivity.
* Adapt the syntax and layout of cellular websites to focus on cellphone models.
* improve cellular websites to focus on complicated positive aspects of phone browsers.
* Validate and compress cellular markup to optimize for community transmission and browser performance.
* Simulate phone browsers utilizing emulators and improvement tools.
<h3>Who is that this publication for?</h3>
Mobile program builders and their managers have to examine cellular net applied sciences simply because it’s of their financial curiosity. Time-to-market and chance expenses are considerably reduce for web-based cellular purposes than for local ones.

Desktop net builders at software program businesses and IT departments of non-technology companies have to study cellular internet applied sciences to fulfill the calls for of managers who will quickly be asking them to “mobilize this net site.” those builders may want to do the minimal paintings attainable to maximise the compatibility in their cellular sites. The standards-based process recommended during this publication will let them construct gracefully adaptive and conveyable cellular net studies that practice good throughout cellular browser platforms.