num_pages: 382
description: Today's Web 2.0 applications (think Facebook and Twitter) go far beyond the confines of the desktop and are widely used on mobile devices. The mobile Web has become incredibly popular given the success of the iPhone and BlackBerry, the importance of Windows Mobile, and the emergence of Palm Pre (and its webOS platform). At Apress, we are fortunate to have Gail Frederick of the well-known training site Learn the Mobile Web offer her expert advice in Beginning Smartphone Web Development , and Rajesh Lal , a Nokia Web engineer, who shares design guidelines for mobile Web. In this book, Gail and Rajesh teaches the web standards and fundamentals specific to smartphones and other feature-driven mobile phones and devices.By the end of this book, you'll have the training, tools, and techniques for creating robust mobile web experiences on any of these platforms for your favorite smartphone or other mobile device.What you'll learn Who this book is forMobile application developers and their managers need to learn mobile web technologies because it's in their economic interest. Time-to-market and opportunity costs are significantly lower for web-based mobile applications than for native ones.Desktop web developers at software companies and IT departments of non-technology businesses need to learn mobile web technologies to meet the demands of managers who will soon be asking them to "mobilize this web site." These developers will want to do the minimum work possible to maximize the compatibility of their mobile web sites. The standards-based approach advocated in this book will allow them to build gracefully adaptive and portable mobile web experiences that perform well across mobile browser platforms.Table of Contents
language: English
title: Beginning Smartphone Web Development: Building JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax-based Applications for iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60
publisher: Apress