HTML5+jQuery Mobile Mobile Application Development

HTML5+jQuery Mobile Mobile Application Development is a systematic tutorial for beginners in mobile web development, written by Ding Feng and Lu Yucheng and published by Tsinghua University Press in March 2018. The book is divided into five parts and 28 chapters according to technical levels. Part One covers the basics of HTML5: starting from common HTML tags and forms, it explains semantic tags such as header, footer, nav, article, section, and aside, then multimedia with audio and video and Media events, as well as storage mechanisms including localStorage, sessionStorage, application cache, and local databases; it also devotes a chapter to comparing four real-time communication approaches—short polling, long polling, long connection, and WebSocket—and introduces the basic use of Canvas drawing. Part Two focuses on CSS3 and mobile styling: CSS selectors and specificity, four types of element positioning and floating, mobile units such as px/em/rem, the box model, Flex layout, and CSS3 features such as transform, transition, and frame animation. Part Three covers JavaScript: DOM manipulation, JavaScript objects and basic syntax, the Window object, and functions. Part Four explains the jQuery Mobile framework: jQuery selectors, DOM methods, style manipulation, animation effects, AJAX, and jQuery Mobile components, touch events, forms, lists, and project structure. Part Five is a hands-on project: using a chat app as an example, it demonstrates from scratch the process of building a mobile web application. The book includes more than 300 code examples and is suitable as a textbook for universities and training institutions or for self-study.