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There are interesting researches made by Cisco and Ericsson that predicts incredible mobile traffic increase during next few years and a share of it will reach a share of PCs traffic by 2016.

Nowadays almost any major website has a mobile version or responsive/adaptive design that helps to view website on any device. These approaches are quite different, but they work good for content display only. What if you desire to build a rich HTML5 and JavaScript application which interacts with a server and renders pages using theme similar to iPhone or Android one? What kind of technology stack would you use for that?

In this blog post I will answer on the questions above and demonstrate you simple mobile web application that allows to view and save textual posts. There is a Python backend, that stores information in the MongoDB and communicates with a front end using REST approach. Front end is built with the Backbone.js and jQueryMobile.

Below are screenshots of the application (click to view big image in a new window):