Chapter 9. Mobile Development

Mobile web development has caused quite a stir in the last few years. When Apple introduced the iPhone, it didn't support third party plugins such as Flash and Silverlight. This challenged web developers to deliver worthwhile web experiences on the mobile platform with only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Proposed feature enhancements such as HTML5, CSS3, and ECMAScript 5 and 6, along with more powerful browsers, have improved the mobile browsing experience.

Companies and organizations have taken different approaches to delivering the mobile web experience. Some organizations reroute mobile browsers to sites that serve mobile content only (with URLs such as mobile.example.com or m.example.com instead of www.example.com ...

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