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Just started trying some iPhone app development. XCode would get me there, eventually, I suppose. This book, though, let's you fly, with its approach which is new to me and understandable (previous experience in VB6). Such clarity, examples that work, friendly positive style of writing (not too wordy, just right). Am writing the examples in Excel (for convenience) and saving as text (tab delimited) then renaming to .html, Seems to work so far. Can't stop!

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I was just interested in loading the chapter 3 example from files. Three changes:

1. iPhone.js: negate the test to "if !(url.match(/jon..."
2. copy 'desktop.css' from chapter 2 and drop it in with the files
3. copy 'images/manga.png' from ch 2 and drop it in the /images folder

Am loving this book, by the way.

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For those reviewers or readers having problems with the sample code in Ch 3, please note, the author noted on pg 39 that there was a snippet of code that has to be changed in order for the pages to work correctly.

Symptom: page loads fine but when a link is clicked (About, Blog, On Call, etc) the screen flickers but returns to the menu

Fix: change the URL in the sample file "iPhone.js" (close to the bottom) that by default reads "/jonathanstark.com/". Change this URL to the domain that you have copied the sample files into and have used in your browser to load the page with.

Excellent book Jonathan, thank you for your wonderful book. Keep up the good work!

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This must be the best book on mobile development out there. I've read a lot of books explaining new languages or technologies and this one ticks every box. The style is informative and friendly, the author races through the various technologies involved and even for seasoned coders there are a few clever tips thrown in. Granted, for someone without any knowledge of jQuery, a web tutorial or two might be advisable, but this book is phenomenal in that it makes writing apps for the iPhone possible for those who don't use a Mac or who don't want to have to learn objective-C. This author even shows how to make the leap to Mac development if and when the reader feels ready.
This book in short enables users with only a moderate grasp of web programming to write apps for the iPhone, without spending one bean other than the cost of the book. How can you not love this guy?
One minor criticism, and I did read all of them here, the chapter on debugging is a little hard to follow for someone without any experience of it. But skip it, nobody debugs.
Other than that, even if this Chapter 3 problem is genuine, this book is worth the outlay, it's a revelation.

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This is an excellent introduction to any student interested in how to create apps for te i-phone. I have recommended this as an need to ave reference to all my mulutimedia students

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I've spent a couple of weeks looking for this type of information.
Everything I was looking for is in this book.

Comments about O'Reilly Media Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript:

cool book, life-changing.

Comments about O'Reilly Media Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript:

I had no knowledge of HTML, CSS or JS, now I have enough to want to learn more. The book is easy to follow and helps the reader build an APP that makes them feel good. I have not done any programming for a very long time and the world has moved on a lot, but this has given me the chance to enjoy programming again.

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It is concise as great books should be. It is not a reference book, yet it is packed with simple nice code. jQuery is not a "proprietary framework" but an open source javascript library. One has to use a library in order to write anything useable that will run on multiple browsers without repeating yourself four times. And jQTouch plugs into jQuery and adds the iPhone UI magic in an easy to use fashion. I have recommended this book to friends already.

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The title says Javascript. I can write javascript. I buy the book and find it actually means a JQuery, a proprietary framework, the syntax of which the book does not explain. (Thank you for telling me what || means, but I know that. How about telling me what $ means - it's not part of Javascript syntax.) And giving a reference to JQuery tutorials is no help. They teach you JQuery as if it is a language in its own right. I just want to know how to apply what I know about Javascript to JQuery to the minimum extent to use the functions that apply to the iPhone stuff. Please point me to something that will do that. Otherwise the book seems well written and laid out. It might help at the outset to tell the read what sort of things apps written in this way can do and what the functionality of the demo app will be. This would provide a better perspective on what you can do with this technology and what you would need Objective C for.