Chapter 9. Ajax, RIA, and HTML 5

Wow! Ajax, HTML 5, and RIA? How do these things fit together on a mobile device? We all know that Ajax is just a JavaScript technique, so that part is obvious. For mobile browsers, HTML 5 is also more or less a JavaScript thing, with some bonus markup features (the new technologies borrowed by the mobile browsers from the HTML 5 draft are almost all new JavaScript APIs that will work with HTML). Rich Internet Application development also involves the implementation of some JavaScript UI pattern designs.