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Product Description
Today's market for mobile apps goes beyond the iPhone to include BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows Phone, and smartphones powered by Android, webOS, and other platforms. If you're an experienced web developer, this book shows you how to build a standard app core that you can extend to work with specific devices. You'll learn the particulars and pitfalls of building mobile apps with HTML, CSS, and other standard web tools.
You'll also explore platform variations, finicky mobile browsers, Ajax design patterns for mobile, and much more. Before you know it, you'll be able to create mashups using Web 2.0 APIs in apps for the App Store, App World, Ovi Store, Android Market, and other online retailers.
Seven Myths of the Mobile Web
by Maximiliano Firtman
As the Web has moved onto mobile devices, developers have told themselves a lot of stories about what this means for their work. While some of those stories are true, others are misleading, confusing, or even dangerous. Its not the mobile web; its just the Web! You dont need to do anything special about your desktop website. One website should work for all devices (desktop, mobile, TV, etc.). Mobile web is really easy; Just create a WML file. Just create an HTML file with a width of 240 Pixels, and you have a mobile website. Native mobile applications will kill the mobile web. People are not using their mobile browsers.