It's no secret that major social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn have abandoned high-profile HTML5 projects in favor of mobile native app. But there are still plenty of opportunities at enterprises for developers with strong Web-based skillsets.
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With the launch of a free development and testing platform for platform-independent Web applications, Intel has thrown its hat into the HTML5 ring and given the emerging standard an important nod.
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Businesses grappling with mobile strategy have to decide whether to invest time and resources into developing a native app, or into improving their mobile Web experience.
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We've looked at how HTML5's features can be manipulated to craft malicious Websites, or to exploit applications to perform unauthorized tasks. But HTML5 also introduces new features to help developers write more secure, plug-in free, cross-platform applications. In a recent interview, Mike Shema, director of engineering at cloud security company Qualys explained these benefits of HTML5.
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As HTML5 gains traction among developers, researchers are increasingly looking at how poor implementation and sloppy development practices could cause problems for end users.
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Three major Web companies—Microsoft, Netflix, and Google—would like to see digital rights management added to the HTML 5 specification.
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The past few weeks have seen much discussion about how plug-in technologies such as Java and Flash make users vulnerable to potential cyber-attacks. The concern comes as HTML5 applications become more widespread, freeing users from Java and Flash for many daily Web needs.
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The World Wide Web Consortium announcement that HTML5 is stable and feature-complete brings the latest Web framework one step closer to becoming a standard.
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Grids have always played a part of design, but they can be a headache in web browsers. IE10 includes a special system for the grids used in
Windows 8 apps. Because the functionality exists in IE10 itself, you can use it in your browser applications.
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It's December and predictions season in the tech world, so let's look at what 2013 will mean for HTML5.
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When the Web was new, few browser developers could have imagined how it's evolved today. Back then, the WWW was primarily for viewing pages and the occasional form.
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Regardless of your politics, HTML5 was the clear winner on election night, with most news organizations relying on HTML5 applications for interactive maps, info graphics and other data visualization needs.
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Prior to HTML 5, creating charts and graphs in an HTML page was difficult, involving plugins or drawing DIV elements. Now, HTML 5's Canvas element includes several 2D functions for easy graphing.
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With virtually all the modern browsers finally supporting most of the latest HTML 5 standards, a war seems be waging on whether to develop native apps or HTML 5. Some developers are building HTML 5 apps that run on the mobile browser, while others are insisting on building native apps.
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After an independent researcher demonstrated a new way to launch phishing attacks using HTML5, developers and security experts are discussing how to best protect users.
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For developers wondering about the status of the HTML5 specification, the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) has published a tentative plan outlining a 2014 deadline for finalization of the new Web technology as a standard, eight years ahead of previous schedules.
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For gaming enthusiasts who miss the classics such as Pong and Lunar Lander, Atari has teamed up with Microsoft to bring them back, updated and still as good as the originals. More importantly, Atari is offering HTML5 developers an open platform for developing and publishing other HTML5 games.
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Whether or not mobile developers would shift to the new HML5 Web technology or continue with native apps is often a contentious and never-ending discussion. However, the debate is missing an important point.
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HTML5 promises many nifty tricks, but those very features can also be used maliciously.
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HTML5 may offer developers greater control and flexibility when creating applications that can run on multiple platforms, but the new Web standard also comes with security issues that need to be addressed before attacks become more widespread, security experts believe.
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In its drive for better performance and improved graphics rendering, Microsoft has improved how its new operating system and latest version of Internet Explorer take advantage of hardware acceleration.
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In my last post, I discussed how developers can take advantage of HTML5's cross-platform capabilities and no-plugin architecture for their games. Casual games are the clear winners here, as developers no longer have to use Flash to crank out simple addictive games that can be played within the Web browser.
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The HTML5 Web standard pulls together several Web technologies – including CSS5, JavaScript, and jQuery – to simplify development without compromising visual effects. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the gaming industry.
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It feels like practically every day another company is moving towards HTML5. The Financial Times recently ditched its iPad app and moved its site to HTML5. Microsoft has been showing off Internet Explorer's HTML5 capabilities. And Facebook announced its App Center, a hybrid marketplace showcasing HTML5 apps.
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Developers are ready to make the plunge into HTML5: to develop sophisticated Websites and applications that work the same regardless of what computer or mobile device is used.
Do you have the right tools to make it happen?
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HTML5 is coming. HTML5 is already available. It will kill Flash. It can't do what Flash does. There are a lot of such statements, questions, and misconceptions about what developers can do and cannot do with the emerging Web standard
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Microsoft recently partnered with independent film studio Lionsgate to launch a Website promoting "The Hunger Games," a movie based on a book series of a post-apocalyptic North America that has sold millions of copies. The Website in Internet Explorer 9 showcases the possibilities of a World Wide Web powered by HTML5 and CSS3 by letting fans explore the Capitol, the central metropolis mentioned in the movie.
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More and more mobile software developers are looking to add HTML5 to their coding toolbox, but apps written entirely in HTML5 are still a long way away, according to a survey published by IDC and app tools maker Appcelerator.
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As recently noted, the big news in computing and Internet last week was GA on Windows 8 Consumer Preview, a mostly functional, mostly sanded-smooth pre-release of Windows 8, largely meant for developer and serious early-adopter delectation. With that release comes the newest developer rev (#5, following the #4 rev of last November) of Internet Explorer 10, which uses the same HTML rendering engine as the OS.
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As this blog is posted, Microsoft is making last-minute improvements to its hotly anticipated Windows 8 Consumer Preview build, whose late-February launch will coordinate with the preview launch of Windows Store. Windows 8 and the store will both use Microsoft's Metro UX – first introduced on Zune and Windows Phone – that earned several IDEA2011 awards from the Industrial Designers Association of America in September of last year.
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CORS shares fluently. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a well-supported HTML5 idiom that enables fluent communication across domain boundaries – formerly the arena of XSS (cross-site scripting) in JSON and other tricky or limited maneuvers, all arguably insecure. Flexible and powerful, one popular emerging application is to use CORS to enable provision of third-party services through simple websites.
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Score your browser. If you develop for the web, chances are you have the latest versions of many different browsers on your desktop. And chances are you carry around a vast and ever-expanding table of incompatibilities, quirks, and variant interpretations of w3c screed in your head. Or at least you do, up through HTML 4.01.
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In my first blog post, I wrote about the possibility that HTML5 could spell the end (5 Things You Need To Keep In Mind About HTML5) for native applications on mobile devices. I argued that developers needed to think about this as they built out websites and applications in HTML5, designing instead for function rather than form factor.
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For my blog post this month, I conducted an interview with Brandon Satrom, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft. Brandon and I discussed all the ways HTML5 is changing the field of web development, from the evolution of HTML to the growth of the mobile web and native applications. You can read our discussion below.
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Internet Explorer 9 introduces Pinned Sites features like favicons, notifications, jump lists, and thumbnail toolbars. These tools give you the ability to extend your website outside the browser and make it more like a native application in Windows.
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It's no secret that major social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn have abandoned high-profile HTML5 projects in favor of mobile native app. But there are still plenty of opportunities at enterprises for developers with strong Web-based skillsets.... read more.
With the launch of a free development and testing platform for platform-independent Web applications, Intel has thrown its hat into the HTML5 ring and given the emerging standard an important nod.... read more.
Businesses grappling with mobile strategy have to decide whether to invest time and resources into developing a native app, or into improving their mobile Web experience.... read more.
We've looked at how HTML5's features can be manipulated to craft malicious Websites, or to exploit applications to perform unauthorized tasks. But HTML5 also introduces new features to help developers write more secure, plug-in free, cross-platform applications. In a recent interview, Mike Shema, director of engineering at cloud security company Qualys explained these benefits of HTML5.... read more.
As HTML5 gains traction among developers, researchers are increasingly looking at how poor implementation and sloppy development practices could cause problems for end users.... read more.
Three major Web companies—Microsoft, Netflix, and Google—would like to see digital rights management added to the HTML 5 specification.... read more.
A Lap Around HTML5: HTML5 Graphics