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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 005 EAN: 9781847193438 ISBN: 1847193439 Label: Packt Publishing Manufacturer: Packt Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 236 Publication Date: June 02, 2008 Publisher: Packt Publishing Release Date: June 02, 2008 Studio: Packt Publishing Editorial Review: Product Description: Mobile Web Development shows you how to build a mobile presence for your web applications and sites. It covers targeting different mobile web browsers, sending and receiving SMS and MMS messages, accepting mobile payments, and developing voice- and touchtone-response systems. This book is for web developers who want to provide mobile support for their applications. The book assumes some knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The reader should also know a server-side language. The examples in the book use PHP, but can be adapted easily to other languages. The book does not use J2ME, focusing instead on using the phone's web browser and other standard features. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Excellent resource!This excellent book provides a fast-paced overview of issues impacting mobile web development and approaches to coping with them. If you want to learn how to build standards-based mobile web sites, this book can help you get there in a hurry! Rating:  - Excellent introduction to mobile web programmingThis is a quick and effective introduction to developing websites specifically targeted at mobile device users. I say "users" for a reason -- one of the strongest advantages to the book is a strong focus on considering your user and their needs as a key element of mobile web development. My overall reaction to this book was positive. It covers a wide variety of key issues for mobile web programming in an easily understood manner. The book is targeted primarily at developers who already ... Read More Rating: - covers several topics for cellphone appsMehta instructs about coding for cellphones, covering topics ranging from GUI development to accessing a database server. If you already have experience writing GUIs for desktop or web applications, then the GUI part of the text should be dead simple. Of necessity, there is a severely constrained graphic environment on the cellphone. It is good, in the sense that you don't have much to learn, and almost certainly, the complexity of your GUI should be low. Of course, the tradeoff is this ... Read More Rating: - Great Book for converting traditional web developer to mobile worldI am doing mostly Java, PHP, RoR development. Has never done any mobile web development before. To cater my curiocity of furture mobile we, I ordered this book using 2 day shipping. I was woundering why this book didn't have a cent of discount. Now I know why, it is a great book which worths all the money. I read it from beginning to end in 6 hours. I simply could not stop. It covers most important aspect of mobile web development. Now I am very anxious to try build a mobile version of my ... Read More |
