| By Kevin Benedict |
Article Rating: |
|
| September 13, 2012 10:07 AM EDT |
Reads: |
2,164 |
This week I spoke at the ClickConnect 2012 conference. While attending I listened to the product guys/gals at
ClickSoftware discuss their mobile application development platform called
ClickMobile Touch which is a development platform for HTML5 based enterprise mobility apps. While some may question the value of HTML5 for the enterprise, ClickSoftware is not one of them.
ShoutEm has unveiled a development platform for the creation
of HTML5 mobile web apps with much of the same functionality as native
apps.
Read Original Content
It doesn’t have to be “native vs. HTML5” for mobile apps if
developers take a hybrid approach. The
hybrid app will be built individually for each mobile platform, but developers
can add layers of HTML5 to run on top of native code in order to take advantage
of each platform's best features.
Read Original Content
Indian online entertainment store Hungama.com is launching a
new HTML5 version to enable users to listen and stream on all iOS, Android and
Windows 8 platforms (the service already exists for BlackBerry and Symbian interfaces).
Read Original Content
Developer Horia Dragomir discusses the challenges of writing
HTML5 apps and games for mobile devices in this interview in InfoQ. (Both video and transcript of the interview
are available.)
Read Original Content
Amazon is adding a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing capability
to its S3 Simple Storage Service, allowing developers to implement HTML5-based
drag and drop uploads, show upload progress and update content without running
a custom proxy server between their web app and S3.
Read Original Content
Chinese search engine Baidu has launched a new Android
browser featuring a new HTML5 and JavaScript engine which scored an impressive
482 out of 500 on the HTML5 Browser Test.
Read Original Content
Conde Nast has overhauled its British Vogue website
(vogue.co.uk), with a new site built in HTML5 and CSS3,”ensuring it adapts to
both the small screens of tablet devices, on the largest of desktop monitors,
and all sizes in between”.
Read OriginalContent
The new Free HTML5 Video Player and Converter app solves
cross browser compatibility issues by enabling the creation of videos once for
playback in all HTML5 compatible browsers.
Read Original Content
appMobi has launched two new cloud-based services for hybrid
HTML5 apps, openBuild and storeView.
openBuild enables developers to compile HTML5 code into a distributable
“hybrid” app and storeView, for PhoneGap and hybrid HTML5 app developers,
aggregates and displays detailed app analytics in a single dashboard.
Read Original Content
Distribution, monetization, platform power and network
effects, and functionality are reasons the apps vs. HTML5 debate is
important. A new report from BI
Intelligence explains these reasons and what an HTML future will look like for
consumers, developers, and brands.
ReadOriginal Content
A new infographic in Tnooz provides information to help
organizations with the question of whether to build a mobile app or a mobile
website.
Read Original Content
HTML5 has a future, but is currently losing as far as mobile
devices are concerned as it’s out-performed by native apps, says David Meyer in
this article, “Why HTML5 is in Trouble on the Mobile Front”, in ZDNet.
Read Original Content
According to Tom Petrocelli in his article “Big Differences
in Mobile Support for the Social Enterprise” in CMSWire, HTML5 is the lowest
common denominator for reaching all platforms and HTML5 support will be on the
rise and will be “a core part of the Social Enterprise feature set”.
Read Original Content
appMobi has launched a new free remote debugging tool for
HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3. debugMobi
simplifies remote debugging on mobile devices with a configuration-free, hosted
version of the open source tool Web Inspector Remote that developers can access
from anywhere on the Internet.
ReadOriginal Content
*************************************************************
Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Full Disclosure: I am a mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
Subscribe to Symbian Developer's Journal Email News Alerts
Subscribe via RSS
