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Building Mobile-Web Solutions: Best Practices and Tools

This guide explores strategies for creating mobile web applications, emphasizing modern coding practices and effective use of meta tags, browser detection, and redirection techniques. Key elements include the implementation of viewport settings, adding clickable phone numbers, and validating code to ensure compatibility across devices. Additionally, it introduces jQuery Mobile, a framework designed for mobile web development, showcasing its features and resources, including simulators for various platforms. Enhance your mobile web skills with these valuable insights and tools.

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Building Mobile-Web Solutions: Best Practices and Tools

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  1. Coding for Mobile Week 13 TCNJ Web 2 Jean Chu

  2. Web is Dead. Long live the Internet http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1

  3. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1

  4. Coding Web for Mobile

  5. Mobile Specific Meta Tags <meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=no;" /> <meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="True" />

  6. Detect the browser and redirect Detect the Browser <?php $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’]; ?> Redirect to the mobile page <?phpheader('Location: http://www.example.com/'); ?>

  7. Detect the browser and redirect- Easy Way to Use a library http://www.detectmobilebrowsers.mobi/ require_once('mobile_device_detect.php'); $mobile =mobile_device_detect(true,false,true,true,true,true,true,'http://www.domain-name.com/m/',false);

  8. Extra : Click to Call Mobile <a href="tel:555-555-5555">555-555-5555</a>

  9. Validating Code • http://validator.w3.org/mobile/

  10. Simulators • iphone • http://testiphone.com/ • Blackberry • http://us.blackberry.com/developers/resources/simulators.jsp • Android • http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

  11. Using jQuery Mobile (alpha version yet) BUILD Mobile Web / APP USING jQUERY MOBILE

  12. jQuery Mobile • It is Alpha Version so far (Not even Beta) • http://jquerymobile.com/ • http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.1.0/ • HTML5 markup-driven • Supports Mobile only events (Tap, Swipe, etc)

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