Mobile JavaScript Application
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Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Mobile JavaScript Application Development
by Adrian Kosmaczewski
Copyright © 2012 Adrian Kosmaczewski. All rights reserved.
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Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
1. HTML5 for Mobile Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A Bit of History 1
Declarations and Meta Tags 2
A Minimal HTML5 Document 2
Doctype 2
Charset 2
JavaScript and Stylesheets 3
New and Obsolete Elements 3
HTML5 Applications 3
Add Web Apps to Home Screen in iOS 4
Add Web Apps to Home Screen in Android 5
Metadata for HTML5 Applications 5
HTML5 Application Cache 8
Manifest Files in Apache 11
Manifest Files with PHP 11
Manifest Files in IIS 11
Manifest Files in .NET 12
Debugging Manifest Files 13
Testing for HTML5 Features 13
Geolocation 14
Device Orientation 15
Device Motion 15
Network Connectivity 17
Canvas 18
CSS3 Animations and Transitions 20
Transitions 20
Animations 22
Final Considerations 23
Client-Side Storage 24
SQL Storage 25
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