Mobile Web Development
Publisher: Packt Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Birmingham
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781847193445
Subjects: Mobile computing; Web sites; Design; Web development
Description: Building mobile websites, SMS and MMS messaging, mobile payments, and automated voice call systems with XHTML MP, WCSS, and mobile AJAX.
Notes: OK, So How do I Adapt?

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Mobile Web Development; Mobile Web Development; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewer; Preface; What This Book Covers; What You Need for This Book; Conventions; Reader Feedback; Customer Support; Downloading the Example Code for the Book; Errata; Questions; 1. Getting Mobile; What is Mobile Web?; Mobile Web Integration is Connecting the Two!; The First Step-Understanding Mobile Devices; Mobile Phones; PDAs; Other Devices; Mobile Data Usage is Exploding; Mobile Usage Around the World is Not the Same; Mobiles and Desktops; People Use Their Mobiles Differently Than Their Desktops.; title: How Would You Do This Using Your Mobile?It's Not All Rosy-Mobile Devices have Limitations; Advantages of Mobile Web; But There are Many Ways to Do Mobile Web Development!; What About WAP?; Bringing Order with Standards and Guidelines; Adaptation is Better, but LCD is Easier; Summary; 2. Starting Your Mobile Site; Pizza On The Run and the Mobile Web; Different Options for Going Mobile; Do Nothing; When to Use This Approach; When to Avoid This Approach; Remove Formatting; When to Use This Approach; When to Avoid This Approach; CSS-Based Design; ; Wireless CSS; When to Use This Approach.; title: When to Avoid This ApproachMobile Site; When to Use This Approach; When to Avoid This Approach; Mobile Navigation and Information Architecture; Step-By-Step: Planning the Structure of Your Mobile Site; Handy Tips in Structuring Your Mobile Site; Setting Up the Development Environment; Hosting Your Mobile Site is Trivial; POTR Mobile Homepage; Making a Call is as Simple as Email; Understanding the Homepage; Document Structure; Fundamentals of XHTML MP; Before Writing Further Code, Let's Learn Some Grammar; ; XHTML Documents Must be Well Formed; Tags Must be Closed!; title: Elements Must be Properly NestedElements and Attributes Must be in Lowercase; Attribute Values Must be Enclosed within Quotes; Attributes Cannot be Minimized; XHTML Entities Must be Handled Properly; Most Common HTML Elements are Supported; XHTML MP Does Not Support Many WML Features; Summary; 3. Building Pizza On The Run; Luigi's Pizza On The Run; Designing Layouts for the Mobile Web; Mobile Screen Sizes; Colors, Images, Page Sizes, and More; To Mobile or Not to Mobile?; Web Layouts Don't Work on Mobile Devices; Using Wireless CSS as the Silver Bullet, Almost!; title: Creating the Database and Code Architecture for POTRClasses for POTR; Database Schema; Coding Framework; Redoing the POTR Homepage; Form Elements Don't Look the Same Across Browsers; Form Processing Does not Change!; Handling Sessions and User Login; Taking Orders; Constraining User Input with WCSS; Single-Step Registration and Order Placement on POTR; Special Effects with CSS; Luigi's Pizza On The Run is Live!; Summary; 4. Adapting to User Devices; What is Adaptation?; Do I Need Adaptation?; Can't I just Use Common Capabilities and Ignore the Rest?; How to Determine the LCD?