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App stores have become fashionable these days and now we have an HTML5 App store. Robert Reich, developer and founder of Openspace Store, Inc. has set out to build the world’s largest App Store, by establishing the Developers Cooperative. The cooperative is for all developers building HTML5 applications. What’s more, there are no fees and [...]
Google has always loved HTML5, as it is about taking people to the web. Something, what its own Android would stop people from doing by using the native applications. Hence, Google is always looking at Chrome as its long term strategy, while Android has seen all the success. Anyways, we are talking about Google’s HTML5 [...]
IBM has announced an HTML5 authoring tool called Maqetta at IBM Impact 2011 conference in Las Vegas. Maqetta is an open source WYSIWYG HTML5 editor, supporting features like drag and drop to create HTML5 user interfaces. It provides support for both Desktop and Mobile user interfaces. Maqetta interface in itself is written in HTML5 and [...]
Adobe had conquered the web, defeated applets and then came Apple. But, with all the talk of HTML5 support from every tech company in the world, there is not a single tool that makes it easy to use HTML5. There are a lots of features and one could argue even a NotePad is sufficient. It [...]
GENWI, a cloud-based provider of DIY instant app creation for publishers, has overhauled its “InstantApps” platform from iSites to allow creation of feature-rich applications with HTML5 video features and interactive content (claimed) in as little as 30 minutes. Built to be smooth, accessible and simple for even the most amateur developer or least technical small [...]
Using HTML5 Canvas to draw stuff is more akin to C’s drawing libraries of yesteryears. It had all the capabilities, but was always a tedious work dealing in pixels and basic methods like line and arc. Now, oCanvas is the C++ or Visual C++ of HTML5, bring object based drawing to HTML5 Canvas. oCanvas is [...]
Microsoft is pushing its Bing search hard and this time it is not shying away from following the standards. HTML5 is the next standard and thus far Microsoft has been a laggard in providing support in an ever changing competing environment which is moving more to towards web and mobile day by day, threatening Microsoft’s [...]
Well, those of you who are yet to take a plunge into the world of iOS and iPad ecosystem, can now do so without have to give any of your hard earned money to Apple. And you can do this right from your browser. Take a look at this iPad 2 simulator made of HTML5/CSS3 [...]
HTML5 Boilerplate is a HTML/CSS/JS template incorporating the best practices in cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain Ajax and Flash. The developers behind the project call it a set of tricks to get you up and running quickly in your quest to develop a cross-browser, yet a future proof website. Some of the [...]
Google has managed to parts of Maps without using flash. But it still uses some elements of Flash in StreetView. Now there is an option available to provide a tiling map interface using HTML5. Tile5 is an opensource HTML5 mapping Javascript library that provides developers the ability to integrate existing mapping platforms to provide a [...]
