jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials, 2nd Edition: Build mobile-optimized websites using the simple, practical, and powerful jQuery-based framework

243 Pages·2013·4.44 MB·English

by  Raymond Camden

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jQuery Mobile Web
Development Essentials
Second Edition
Build mobile-optimized websites using the simple,
practical, and powerful jQuery-based framework
Raymond Camden
Andy Matthews
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
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jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials
Second Edition
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Second Edition: September 2013
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Credits
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Raymond Camden Apeksha Chitnis
Andy Matthews
Proofreader
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Reviewers
Matt Gifford
Eliecer Daza Parra Indexer
Mariammal Chettiyar
Olivier Pons
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Cover Work
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About the Authors
Raymond Camden is a Senior Developer Evangelist for Adobe. His work focuses
on web standards, mobile development, and ColdFusion. He's a published author,
and presents at conferences and user groups on a variety of topics. Raymond can
be reached at his blog at www.raymondcamden.com, followed on Twitter
(@cfjedimaster), or contacted via e-mail at [email protected].
As always, I dedicate this book to the one person who made this all
possible, my wife Jeanne. Thank you for believing in me and being
strong when I am not. I will love you always.
I'd like to thank everyone on the jQuery and jQuery Mobile teams
for making tools that have changed my life. Without your hard work
and dedication, the Web would be less awesome. Thank you Andy
for coming on board and helping to make this book better.
Andy Matthews has been working as a web and application developer for over
16 years, with experience in a wide range of industries, and a skillset that includes
UI/UX, graphic design, and programming. He is the co-author of the book jQuery
Mobile Web Development Essentials, Packt Publishing, and writes for online publications
such as NetTuts and .NET Magazine. He is a frequent speaker at conferences
around the country, and he has developed software for the open source community
including several of the most popular jQuery Mobile projects on the Web. He blogs
at andyMatthews.net, tweets at @commadelimited, and lives in Nashville, TN, with
his wife and four children.
Thanks to my wife and children who tolerate my time spent learning
and writing.
Thanks to Packt Publishing for publishing this book. Thanks to the
jQuery Mobile team for creating such a great and easy-to-use open
source project.
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About the Reviewers
Matt Gifford is an RIA developer from Cambridge, England, who specializes
in ColdFusion, web application, and mobile development. With over 10 years of
industry experience across various sectors. Matt is the owner of a development
consultancy firm monkehWorks Ltd (www.monkehworks.com).
He is a regular presenter at national and international conferences, and also
contributes articles and tutorials for leading international industry magazines
as well as publishes them on his blog at: http://www.mattgifford.co.uk.
As an Adobe Community Professional, Matt is an advocate of community resources
and industry-wide knowledge sharing, with a focus on encouraging the next
generation of industry professionals.
Matt is the author of Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion and PhoneGap Mobile
Application Development Cookbook (both by Packt Publishing) as well as numerous open
source applications, including the popular monkehTweets Twitter API wrapper.
You can reach Matt on Twitter via @coldfumonkeh or through his blog.
My eternal thanks always go to my constantly supportive family. Big
thanks also go to Ray and Andy for inviting me to review their work.
It has been a pleasure working with them, as always.
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Eliecer Daza Parra has been a web developer since 2005. He has got ample
experience in Java, Python, PHP, jQuery, and jQuery Mobile. Elicer has an experience
of more than 8 years as a Java developer. He has been a software developer for
Information Management and Customer Relationship Management (CMR) for health
promoting enterprises (EPS), public transportation, and education companies in the
private and public sectors. He has been working as a Python developer since more
than 2 years, working with responsive websites.
Among the main areas of his interest are the development of Linux, Python, Android,
and Google Services. He has a huge interest in nurturing blog spaces about Linux
administration and programming.
My heartfelt appreciation to God, my beloved mother and friend, my
family, and July.
Olivier Pons is a developer who's been building websites since 1997. He's a
teacher at Ingésup (École supérieure d'ingénierie informatique), the University of
Sciences (IUT) of Aix-en-Provence, France where he teaches Linux, Apache HTTP
server, PHP, jQuery/jQuery Mobile, advanced website optimization, and advanced
VIM techniques. He has already written some technical reviews, including the
Packlib book Ext JS 4 First Look. In 2011, he left a full-time job as a Delphi and PHP
developer to concentrate on his own company, HQF Development (http://hqf.
fr). He currently runs a number of websites, including http://www.livrepizzas.
fr, http://www.papdevis.fr, and http://olivierpons.fr—his own web
development blog. He currently works as a consultant, project manager, and
senior developer.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Preparing Your First jQuery Mobile Project 11
Important preliminary points 11
Building an HTML page 11
Getting jQuery Mobile 13
Customized downloads 14
Implementing jQuery Mobile 14
Working with data attributes 16
Summary 18
Chapter 2: Working with jQuery Mobile Pages 19
Important preliminary points 19
Adding multiple pages to one file 20
jQuery Mobile, links, and you 22
Working with multiple files 23
jQuery Mobile and URLs 25
Additional customization 26
Page titles 26
Prefetching content 26
Changing page transitions 27
Summary 28
Chapter 3: Enhancing Pages with Headers, Footers, and Toolbars 29
Important preliminary points 29
Adding headers 29
Icon sneak peak 31
Working with back buttons 31
Working with footers 33
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