PUBLIC MARKS from Spone with tags "web app" & mobile

This is a list of guidelines we've been compiling over the last couple years while building high-performance mobile frontends, as well as building the open source library impulse. Some of these are broadly applicable to any mobile website, some are specifically for people building apps.

Building well-designed websites on mobile devices is slowly becoming easier and easier. Whatever the method (responsive, adaptive, etc.), if you know what you're doing, crafting a good-looking site is not a problem. But your clients, just like ours, may still be asking for that app-like experience. And creating such experiences remains a challenge.

HTML5 introduces new methods for enabling a web site or web application to function without a network connection. When you’re working on a mobile connection and your signal drops, or you just have no connection to the internet for whatever reason, having some level of access is better than nothing. In this article, we’ll look at how the application cache can store resources to be used by the browser when it’s offline, granting your users partial access to your web site or application.

Web apps that work offline are still uncommon, and there aren't a lot of "real life" implementation examples on the Web.

A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.