February 2011
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January 2011
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November 2010
1 post
Mobile Users prefer web apps over native apps? →
mobilefocus:
Adobe have released their recent survey results on “Users Preference for using a mobile browser vs native app for accessing select types of mobile contents”.
As a result, most mobile users preferred to use mobile browsers accessing virtually all mobile contents, especially on e-commerce/online shopping, news, and product reviews categories.
Games, music and social media were the...
October 2010
3 posts
How we use mobile JavaScript in Freckle →
Nice overview of simple ways to make your HTML5 mobile app better and easier to use.
Android 2.2 Browser Geolocation gotcha
I’ve been using fortysquires as my exclusive Foursquare app for many months now. I used it on iPhone and, for the last three or so months, on Android (Droid X). Everything was working great until my Droid X was updated to Android 2.2 (FroYo) and the GPS code stopped working.
It wasn’t just on fortysquires, either. It was on many sites that rely on geolocation. In fact, one of the only...
37Signals: Here’s what we’ve learned about doing... →
Lately, we’ve been exploring ways to offer web apps that perform like native apps on mobile devices. For this short sprint we targeted mobile WebKit browsers—especially the default browsers on iOS and Android—because of their widespread use and excellent support for HTML5 and CSS3.
Here are a few things we’ve learned along the way:
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
3 posts
An implausibly illustrated introduction to HTML5... →
jQuery Mobile →
A unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design.
WhitherApps →
WhitherApps is a bandwagon-busting experiment. I believe there are far too many native client apps which could have been far better written as mobile web apps. What we’re going to try and do is take a few examples, apply a little reverse-engineering, and rewrite them, warts and all, with web technologies.
July 2010
4 posts
11% of Web Traffic Worldwide is Now Mobile
mobileanalytics:
Mobile traffic to sites designed for the desktop Web have increased over the last 6 months from 8.3% to 11%, a 32% increase.
Will Mobile Web Apps Eventually Replace Native... →
Will HTML5 be the demise of apps? →
June 2010
11 posts
HTML5 and the Write-Once, Run Anywhere Dream
thegongshow:
Dan Kantor wrote a piece for Ajaxian about the “write once, run anywhere” dream and how HTML5 is a big step along that path.
Dan’s execution on Extension.fm feels like he reached two years into the future, and pulled an app back in time to show us all what the future of web development could be. In doing so, the tradeoff Dan made was to restrict compatibility to Chrome-only...
Why Porn and the iPad Are King for HTML5 →
Sencha Touch →
Sencha Touch allows you to develop web apps that look and feel native on Apple iOS and Google Android touchscreen devices.
Why You May Not Need A Mobile App →
W3C: Mobile Web Application Best Practices →
Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast →
Fantastic overview of making a beautiful, fast iPad optimized web app (everytimezone.com).
Apple's HTML5 and Web Standards website →
html5watch:
Apple just launched a website which demoes some great examples of rich webpages made using standards-based technologies. A fantastic resource.
“What’s amazing about fortysquires is that I really didn’t expect to sell more...”
– Case Study: Selling a paid mobile web app (fortysquires)
How HTML 5 link prefetching can make your site... →
“We have two platforms we support. One is open and uncontrolled —...”
– Steve Jobs.
May 2010
2 posts
iGesture →
iGesture provides an event-driven model for supporting gestures (like swiping the screen) in your web application. iGesture is especially useful if you are building an application for mobile devices such as the iPhone or iPad and wish to support the same gestures as a native application on both mobile devices and in standard browsers. Because iGesture is event-based, you can support gestures...
WatchCBS has confirmed that they plan to bring all CBS.com video content to iPad via HTML5 format by the fall television season.
When we were looking at the iPad as a separate device, it had a lot more similarities to a PC in our mind…So for us, we wanted to make sure that video was available through HTML5 on the iPad first.
Via TiPB, via NewTeeVee.
April 2010
10 posts
“Though the operating system for the iPhone, iPod and iPad is proprietary, we...”
– Steve Jobs: Thoughts on Flash
fortysquires: An open-source HTML5 Foursquare... →
I built Fortysquires as a reference Rails 3 mobile HTML5 app. You can use it to check in to local venues on Foursquare.
The three biggest features of Fortysquires are:
HTML5 with geolocation for finding local venues.
Available for purchase with the new AppStoreHQ payment API (contact me if you want to join the private alpha).
Open-sourced so you can see exactly what’s happening under the...
“So what’s the problem with [native] apps Well the main one is fragmentation. ...”
– GetJar CMO, Patrick Mork
“Schmidt also said the technology he is most excited about in this area is HTML5,...”
– Eric Schmidt on Google’s “mobile first” attitude, weaknesses
Vodafone targets developing markets with mobile... →
Are browsers Quake-ing in their boots? →
Quake 2 ported to HTML5. I haven’t tried, but I can’t expect this works tremendously well from a mobile device. That said, this combined with Moore’s Law makes the future of HTML5 gaming look bright.
“As you use Google’s web-based applications on iPad, you’ll notice that you...”
– Google services on the iPad and tablet computer
March 2010
3 posts
CBS.com to Serve HTML5 Video for iPad? →
IE9: Microsoft retools its browser with HTML5,... →
Hopefully we’ll see this drop through into the new Windows Phone 7 Series on mobile.
Major League Baseball Just Solved Pandora's iPhone... →
Not really HTML5 related, but if you’re working on mobile web apps and streaming music, this is a big feature.
February 2010
12 posts
Tutorial: Your First Mobile HTML5 App - Offline...
Continuing along with our tutorial series about creating your first mobile HTML5 app, today we’ll talk about the local SQL database available. Part 1 discussed general HTML5 setup, new form elements, and geolocation. We started building a golf score keeper app. Today we’ll continue building that, ripping out some features (to keep our eyes focused on today’s features) and adding...
AppStoreHQ: The Web App App Store →
Shameless plug for my own site, but I think this is a great tool for mobile web developers. Contact me if you have any comments or would like to discuss further.
Multiple Platform Mobile Development
thegongshow:
Seth Goldstein defined the term iDroid, and in doing so, articulates a big concern of mine as I observe mobile product development in USV’s portfolio companies. First the definition:
iDroid (n.) - developing for iPhone and Android platforms simultaneously, as in “let’s make sure we have iDroid versions up and running before we launch the new web service.”
I’m concerned that...
“The most interesting thing to me about the iPad announcement a couple weeks ago...”
– Why did the iPad create such an interest in HTML5? - Ian Sefferman
HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback →
Google Buzz is a mobile HTML5 app →
The new Google Buzz app is all HTML5 when you’re viewing from your mobile device. Great example of the possibilities.
Linked is AppStoreHQ’s listing of the app in their app discovery service.
Fred Wilson: Flash, HTML5, and Mobile Apps →
The Future of Web Content – HTML5, Flash & Mobile... →
(via soupsoup)
Tutorial: Your First Mobile HTML5 App - The...
Over a series of posts, I’m going to guide us through our first mobile HTML5 app. It’s my first HTML5 app, too! The goal of the app will be to explain the big principles of HTML5 in as simple a manner as possible. The goal is not to make the most elegant code in the world, but just workable enough to make a point. Also, all of these examples will work, but depending on your browser and...
Mobile App or Browser-Based Site? Report Says The... →
Mobile search company Taptu has released a detailed report showing that the future of the Mobile Web is likely to be dominated by cross-platform browser-based mobile web sites - rather than apps built specifically for iPhone, Android, or any other platform. Taptu calls the former “the Mobile Touch Web,” which it defines as “Web sites created for mobile touchscreen devices, with...