Discover how to create an app-like experience for the Apple iPad with HTML, CSS, and jQuery. In this course, Chris Converse shows how to prepare web pages that can become web apps on the iPad. Discover how to create custom icons, startup screens, and create an immersive user experience—all with web standard technologies. Bypass Objective-C and the App Store altogether and create a unique experience that can be revised as quickly as you update your web site.

Topics include:

• Setting up the project folders
• Creating the graphics
• Adding HTML
• Creating the layout containers
• Setting up javascript orientation detection
• Adding CSS for layout
• Using CSS3 animation
• Dynamically loading HTML with AJAX
• Adding iScroll functionality
• Adding video
• Adding a Google map
• Detecting an iPad device