Mobile Web - Creating websites ready for small devices

The mobile web has created a rush for companies to get their presence on small devices. Fortunately there are several open-source UI toolkits to help you create custom versions of your web site or web application for popular phone such as iPhone and Android. This session explores these toolkits and best practices.

In this session, we'll code up a mobile-ready website. We'll also look at some best practices for creating these sites. We'll talk about the differences between various devices. Finally, we'll look at the emerging HTML5 standard and how you can leverage it now and in the future to make portable web sites. We'll look at the Webkit specific extension for designing web pages and the new Canvas features for doing graphics.

About Pratik Patel

Pratik Patel is a Java Champion and developer advocate at Azul Systems and has written 3 books on programming (Java, Cloud and OSS). An all around software and hardware nerd with experience in the healthcare, telecom, financial services, and startup sectors. He's also a co-organizer of the Atlanta Java User Group and North Atlanta JavaScript meetup, frequent speaker at tech events, and master builder of nachos.

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