Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari (Wrox Professional Guides) @ richardeward.com

Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari (Wrox Professional Guides)
by Richard, PhD Wagner
from Wrox

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Good Coverage of Web-Based iPhone Dev
  I've never owned a Mac (until now) and never done any development for that platform. While this book doesn't intend to cover the recently released iPhone SDK (it was published before the SDK's release), it does provide excellent coverage of web-based development for the iPhone (and iPod Touch). It leverages a free, open-source library to take much of the grunt work out of it, but also provides detailed code samples and examples and enough information so you could probably do it without the library should... more info

• basic web app
  It's just a basic web app which are a combile of AJAX and CSS. Not much new.

• ok but not great
  This book contains quite some materials from the book you can also find them in Apple's documentations. It also has quite some details on Joe Hewitt's iUI framework. But generally speaking, it lacks more detailed explanation (on CSS, AJAX, JavaScript). Here's the dilema: if you are an experienced CSS and JavaScript developer, you will find it lacking the depth. It barely scratches the surface of what real AJAX-powered iPhone applications can do. If you are somewhat a newbie developer, you will need more... more info

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