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The World Wide Web has changed the way each of us lives our lives, even if we do not interact with it directly. The web is 20 years old this weekend, so at this point we can look back on some important milestones. It was back on August 6th, 1991 that Tim Berners-Lee posted links […]

This week Yahoo announced the beta release of its Yahoo WebPlayer, a new web video player that utilizes HTML and JavaScript–not Flash. The Yahoo WebPlayer supports video and audio from its own Yahoo Video service, as well as YouTube videos, and MP3 and Windows Media Audio (WMA) formats. The director of Yahoo’s Media Web Apps, […]

Google software engineer James Hawkins recently blogged about Google’s Web Intents system–a method of piping data between different Chrome web apps, similar to how Android apps can share data, if the user agrees to do so when they install the apps. Web Intents is a great thing, as developers can create apps which don’t have […]

Developers who are interested in creating HTML5-based web apps will be interested in AppMobi’s Cross-Platform Software Development Kit (XDK). XDK, which AppMobi released this week, can be used to create applications that work on the web as well as mobile devices. Apps created using the XDK can be be submitted and accepted by app stores […]

Results from a recent study of 500 web designers showed that almost half of those polled basically ignore mobile users when creating a new website. The results of the study confirmed that businesses need to make mobile web users part of their plan, before they even consider hiring a designer. Many web hosting services are […]

Microsoft has made it obvious that they want to encourage the use of HTML5 and JavaScript by developers who are targeting Microsoft users. This week, however, they announced that they are using the technologies themselves in Microsoft Office 15. Instead of directing developers to use tools such as Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and Visual […]

Adobe’s new HTML5 authoring tool, Edge, may be a great PR tool for them, and will likely win some developer’s hearts, but don’t think that Adobe is ditching Flash any time soon. Even as more websites and apps use HTML5, Flash will still be a standby for backwards compatibility. HTML5 provides developers with many new […]

A new online tool called iBuildApp enables businesses, musicians, online publications and restaurants and bars to create Android apps using a simple point-and-click interface. iBuildApp also allows users to create iPhone and HTML5 web apps as well, and provides hosting for the apps. Currently there are 25,000 mobile apps hosted on iBuildApp, which has been […]

Edge, a new software tool from Adobe, enables users to add animation effects to their web pages by using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3. Far from being anti-HTML5, Adobe has been continually adding HTML5 support to their products to stay on the leading edge of technology, which is what the title of this software suggests. New […]

According to a report from the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), there are parts of the HTML5 standard that are being re-written with potential security hazards. The 61 page report looked at the HTML5 specification and found 51 security issues. The program manager for secure services at ENISA, Giles Hogben, was eager for […]

Although businesses and websites across the globe have scrambled to create iPad and iPhone applications for their brand, many developers are starting to see the HTML5 writing on the wall, as it spells dollar signs for them–but not through the Apple App Store. The advantages of using HTML5 for app creation include the ability to […]

This week a new player in the mobile OS arena was announced by Mozilla, who will be releasing its own open source, web-based mobile operating system called Boot to Gecko. Boot to Gecko will use the Gecko layout engine along with some components from Google’s Android OS. Boot to Gecko (B2G) source code will be […]