Adobe Dreamweaver Support

Starting from version CS5.5, Adobe Dreamweaver has official support of jQuery Mobile inside the tool. You can download a free trial from http://www.adobe.com/go/dreamweaver.

Warning

The first version of Dreamweaver CS5.5 includes jQuery Mobile alpha 3 and not the latest release. Check http://mobilexweb.com/go/dwjqm for instructions on how to update to the latest version. You can always start with alpha 3 and change it manually. Later versions of Dreamweaver will include the latest stable version at the time of release.

The support includes the ability to start a page using jQuery Mobile. To do that, just open Dreamweaver, go to File → New, select Page from Sample → Mobile Starters, and you will have the ability to select from three templates (as seen in Figure 2-2):

  • jQuery Mobile from CDN

  • jQuery Mobile with local files

  • jQuery Mobile with local files, including PhoneGap support (to be covered later in this book)

Every template starts with a jQuery Mobile document with four pages linked between one another.

Dreamweaver from CS5.5 supports jQuery Mobile templates from scratch.

Figure 2-2. Dreamweaver from CS5.5 supports jQuery Mobile templates from scratch.

The best part of using Dreamweaver is not the templates, but the code syntax assistant. You can start typing data- to receive a list of possible jQuery Mobile data-* values. Or you can receive a list of possible values for each data-* jQuery Mobile attribute (at least defined ...

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