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In the last year, based on the HTTP Archive’s top 1000 most visited websites, the web as we know it is overweight–23 percent “fatter” than last year’s web. Images account for the largest portion of the increase, with JavaScript taking up the second position. While CSS file size has also increased, because they are smaller […]

Google recently sent out invitations to an event on December 8th that will be focused on Native Client, also known as NaCl. NaCl enables web-based software to run natively on x86 processors. This makes the software able to run more quickly than standard web apps, and it comes with additional security as well. The Google […]

Most programmers try to keep an eye on the latest programming trends so they can remain competitive and stay up-to-date on the latest techniques and enhancements. With new JavaScript frameworks coming out every month, the new Google Dart programming language continuing to evolve, and a shift away from open source, developers must reach out to […]

With more mobile apps entering the various app markets every day, this week two UK companies have announced that they believe that web apps deserve their own icon. The web app icon would differentiate web apps from native apps so that consumers can easily recognize them. Mobgets, a British app store, worked with digital communications […]

Obviously there is one feature that Google apps will never have over other mobile apps, namely the native functionality that is available in apps that are created for iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone and Android. If Google plans to dominate the mobile world, it will have to live up to user expectations. The high quality of […]

The Google Dart programming language features the best from other languages including Java, JavaScript and C. Google has been able to provide samples of the type of apps that can be created using Dart, and have worked to create a tool that can be used for multiple platforms–but can it overtake JavaScript? Although the Dart […]

The majority of the apps that run on the iPhone and iPad were created using Objective-C, an antiquated programming language that is considered by many to be harder to learn, and less powerful than modern languages such as JavaScript, Python and Ruby. Many developers are turning to programs like Appcelerator Titanium, which converts apps written […]

This week Google announced a series of web development tools, and announced an extension of its Swiffy Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool for Flash Professional. The Swiffy extension for Flash Professional enables developers to continue to use Adobe Flash as a development environment even for platforms that do not support Flash. A software engineer from the Swiffy […]

Web developers have been working with HTML5 for some time now, but the benefits of HTML5 will enhance the web experience for end users as well. The markup language improves accessibility, enhances presentational choices and provides better performance across multiple devices and platforms. One example of how HTML5 can be used to enhance the user […]

If web apps are to be taken seriously, they must be able to keep up with native apps–at least in terms of apparent execution speed. Google’s Chrome browser is able to do just that, but it’s not the WebKit browser engine that accomplishes the task, but rather Chrome’s v8 JavaScript engine. The Chrome browser’s v8 […]

jQuery has become widely used by web developers for have used it to provide advanced user interface functionality for web apps, and it made the development process easier for those who develop for multiple browsers. Now jQuery Mobile 1.0 has been officially released, providing prebuilt code for the creation of websites and packaged web apps, […]

Even though developers are still debating the topic of native app versus HTML5, other issues have come up for those developers who are working on enterprise mobile apps. Some of those who are pushing HTMl5 as the solution for all mobile problems are guilty of misleading companies who are already overloaded with conflicting information about […]