Preface

This book is the ideal companion for web designers and developers wanting to create mobile experiences using jQuery Mobile.

jQuery Mobile has appeared in the market to solve one problem: dozens of mobile platforms and browsers and the need to create compatible interfaces for all of them.

This book requires just basic knowledge of HTML (any version), and basic JavaScript is helpful for the last chapters. The reader doesn't need to understand HTML5, JavaScript, or jQuery to use most of the jQuery Mobile framework and the contents of this book.

Conventions Used in This Book

The following typographical conventions are used in this book:

Italic: Indicates new terms, URLs, email addresses, filenames, and file extensions.
Constant width: Used for program listings, as well as within paragraphs to refer to program elements such as variable or function names, databases, data types, environment variables, statements, and keywords.
Constant width bold: Shows commands or other text that should be typed literally by the user.
Constant width italic: Shows text that should be replaced with user-supplied values or by values determined by context.