Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Mobile Landscape
2. Creating a Simple Content Site
3. Speeding up the First Load
4. Speeding up the Next Visit
5. Using PJAX to Improve the Touch Experience
6. Taps vs Clicks: Basic Event Handling
7. CSS Transitions, Animations, and Transforms
8. Maximizing JavaScript Performance
9. The Basics of Gestures
10. Scrolling and Swiping
11. Pinching and Other Complex Gestures
Appendix A: Debugging Tools
Appendix B: Mobile Framworks
Appendix C: Building a Mobile Web Application

About the Author

Stephen Woods is a Senior Front-end Engineer at Flickr. He has been developing user interfaces for the web since the end of the last century. He has worked at Yahoo! since 2006. Before Flickr he developed JavaScript platforms that supported the Yahoo! Home page and worked on the UI team at Yahoo! Personals. He's an expert with the full web stack, but his primary interest is making responsive user interfaces with web technologies. Stephen has spoken at SXSW & HTML5DevConf about touch interfaces, and been published in .net magazine.