Developing Modern Mobile Web Apps patterns and practices

Developing Modern Mobile Web Apps patterns & practices

Authors	Year	Pages	Publisher	Dimensions, inch.	File type	Size, Mb	First 20 pages
Microsoft Corporation	2012	112	Microsoft Press	7.51х9.96	PDF	12	First 20 pages

Book Description

This book provides guidance on building mobile web experiences using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. It is a patterns & practices guide.

Developing web apps for mobile browsers can be less forgiving than developing for desktop browsers. There are issues of screen size, the availability of specific feature support, and other differences between mobile browsers that will impact how you develop your apps. In addition, there are various levels of support for the emerging standards of HTML5 and CSS3, and standards for some features, such as touch, are just beginning to take shape. All of these factors suggest that it is best to keep your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as simple as you can in order to ensure compatibility with as many devices as possible. This guide illustrates how to do this, as well as how to add more advanced functionality where supported.

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Contents

1. Building Modern Mobile Web Apps
2. Summary
3. Authors and contributors
4. Related titles
5. Feedback and support
6. Choosing between a web and native experience
7. Platform options
8. Influencing factors
9. Native solutions
10. Web solutions
11. Hybrid solutions
12. Using third-party frameworks
13. Summary
14. Further reading
15. Defining the mobile web app experience
16. Designed to suit device capabilities and constraints
17. Rich, platform-agnostic user interface
18. Forward thinking
19. Summary
20. References
21. Choosing devices and levels of support
22. Determining which browsers and devices to support
23. Summary
24. References
25. Options for building mobile web experiences
26. Improving the mobile-friendliness of your existing app
27. Using a proxy-based solution
28. Developing a standalone mobile solution
29. Developing a responsive experience
30. Summary
31. Resources
32. Mobilizing the Mileage Stats app
33. What is Mileage Stats Mobile?
34. Summary
35. Delivering mobile-friendly styles and markup
36. Goals when developing mobile-friendly markup
37. Embracing browser diversity
38. Summary
39. Developing mobile-friendly forms
40. Goals when developing mobile-friendly forms
41. Form element implementation in Mileage Stats
42. Styling form elements
43. Fallback strategies and false positives
44. Creating custom input widgets
45. Summary
46. Delivering mobile-friendly images
47. Major considerations
48. Summary
49. Delivering a responsive layout
50. Why use responsive design?
51. Summary
52. Additional usability enhancements
53. Navigating large recordsets
54. Providing access to the desktop experience
55. Summary
56. Detecting devices and their features
57. Detecting features on the server
58. Delivering the SPA enhancements
59. Defining the single page application (SPA) requirements
60. Frameworks
61. Building the single page application
62. Summary
63. Testing mobile web experiences
64. Mobile testing tools/options
65. Testing on desktop browsers
66. Testing on emulators and simulators
67. Testing on device hardware
68. Using a remote device service
69. Choosing test browsers and devices
70. Why and how to test
71. Debugging on mobile devices
72. Summary
73. Appendix A: Changes to the server-side code
74. Reducing duplication in the controller actions
75. Appendix B: Implementing geolocation
76. Appendix C: Delivering mobile-friendly charts
77. Rationale and approach

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