Chapter 20. Writing for Mobile Devices

In this chapter

Mobile Markup

Mobile Internet Toolkit

Device Emulators

Mobile Web Forms

Mobile Controls

Extending Mobile Controls

Mobile devices, such as Internet-enabled cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), have become increasingly popular because they enable the user to access data and read e-mail from almost anywhere at any time. Although just now becoming popular in the United States, devices such as Internet-enabled cell phones have come into common use in Europe and Japan, to the extent that in Japan, more people access the Internet and read their e-mail with cell phones than with personal computers.

A large number of different types of devices are considered mobile devices. Cell phones ...

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