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Developers strive to limit the effort and time, they have to spend creating applications and adapting them to multiple platforms. Major platforms, which run the mobiles, – Android and iOS, seem to be like two different worlds, which cannot share same scripting. However, there definitely are ways to create an application, which will be compatible with both platforms. There are well-known cross-development mobile frameworks: Appcelerator’s Titanium and Adobe’s PhoneGap, which offer quite decent solutions for both platforms.

All tablets or smartphones do have inbuilt video players, however sometimes they may not satisfy your needs or cause some problems with using them. Same as desktop users, mobile users will expect some additional options, which they would like to have in their players.

Mobile web-development had quite a number of restrictions. Thus, more and more effort has been put into minimizing them, due to the fact that the tablet and smartphone market is blooming. One of the best examples of successful effort is jQuery Mobile. It is a cross platform framework, created to make mobile web-development easier and broaden what mobile websites have to offer in terms of presentation. It has been created by the jQuery project team.

The fact, that users can see your desktop site on a mobile device, does not mean that the site is mobile-friendly.

Creating mobile friendly sites becomes more important each day, however it is not an easy task. The thing is that in order to produce a good mobile-friendly product, you should be able to run a round of quality assurance procedures on these mobiles. And to do that you need to have these devices. As in most of the cases, this is hardly possible, many people go with testing the product on the emulators.

Trying to accommodate to mobile users creating a mobile version of a site has become quite a popular solution. One of the key tasks here is the proper work of redirecting the viewers to the right version of the site. Thus, if somebody goes to example.com from the phone, you need to be sure, that (s)he will be redirected to mobile.example.com, which is the mobile version.

:hover pseudo-class is applied, while the user designates an element with a pointer, but does not activate it.

While mobile sites have a lot of restrictions in terms of design and functionality, which can be used, besides being mobile there is another advantage over desktops. Many mobile phones have a lot of in-built functionality, which is not present of desktops.

Twitter Bootstrap is an open-source collection of tools for creating websites and web applications. It contains pre-developed HTML and CSS templates for navigation, typography, forms, buttons, tables, alerts and other elements.

“Retina display” is a term introduced by Apple, which stands for liquid crystal displays with a high pixel density, enough for the human eye not to be able to notice the pixelation at regular viewing distance. At the moment the following Apple products have retina displays: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and MacBookPro.

Backlinks (also known as inlinks, inbound links, inward links, incoming links) are links directed to a website from another website. Nowadays backlinks play an important role for Search Engine Optimization, as their number give the search engines information on the popularity, ranking and importance of the website or webpage. This means that Google will give more credit to the sites with good number of backlinks, considering them more relevant than others.