Safari and WebKit Development for iPhone OS 3.0

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxi
Chapter 1: Introducing Safari/WebKit Development for iPhone 3.0 . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2: Working with Core Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 3: Building with Web App Frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Chapter 4: Designing a Usable and Navigable UI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Chapter 5: Styling with CSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Chapter 6: Programming the Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Chapter 7: Handling Touch Interactions and Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Chapter 8: Programming the Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Chapter 9: Special Effects and Advanced Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Chapter 10: Integrating with iPhone Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Chapter 11: Offl ine Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Chapter 12: E nabling and Optimizing Web Sites for the iPhone
and iPod Touch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Chapter 13: Bandwidth and Performance Optimizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Chapter 14: Packaging Apps as Bookmarks: Bookmarklets and Data URLs . 323
Chapter 15: Debug and Deploy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Chapter 16: The iPhone SDK: From Web App to Native App . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
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