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.
Jul 9th
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Will Mobile Web Apps Eventually Replace Native... →
Jul 5th
Jul 5th
Will HTML5 be the demise of apps? →
Jul 2nd
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...
Jun 24th
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Jun 23rd
Why Porn and the iPad Are King for HTML5 →
Jun 19th
Sencha Touch →
Sencha Touch allows you to develop web apps that look and feel native on Apple iOS and Google Android touchscreen devices.
Jun 17th
Why You May Not Need A Mobile App →
Jun 16th
W3C: Mobile Web Application Best Practices →
Jun 12th
Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast →
Fantastic overview of making a beautiful, fast iPad optimized web app (everytimezone.com).
Jun 6th
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.
Jun 4th
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“What’s amazing about fortysquires is that I really didn’t expect to sell more...”
– Case Study: Selling a paid mobile web app (fortysquires)
Jun 3rd
How HTML 5 link prefetching can make your site... →
Jun 3rd
“We have two platforms we support. One is open and uncontrolled —...”
– Steve Jobs. 
Jun 2nd
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...
May 17th
WatchWatch
CBS 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.
May 8th
April 2010
10 posts
“Though the operating system for the iPhone, iPod and iPad is proprietary, we...”
– Steve Jobs: Thoughts on Flash
Apr 29th
Apr 28th
Apr 27th
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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...
Apr 22nd
“So what’s the problem with [native] apps Well the main one is fragmentation. ...”
– GetJar CMO, Patrick Mork
Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
“Schmidt also said the technology he is most excited about in this area is HTML5,...”
– Eric Schmidt on Google’s “mobile first” attitude, weaknesses
Apr 14th
Vodafone targets developing markets with mobile... →
Apr 7th
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.
Apr 4th
“As you use Google’s web-based applications on iPad, you’ll notice that you...”
– Google services on the iPad and tablet computer
Apr 2nd
March 2010
3 posts
CBS.com to Serve HTML5 Video for iPad? →
Mar 25th
IE9: Microsoft retools its browser with HTML5,... →
Hopefully we’ll see this drop through into the new Windows Phone 7 Series on mobile.
Mar 16th
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.
Mar 4th
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...
Feb 20th
2 notes
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.
Feb 18th
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...
Feb 17th
4 notes
“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
Feb 13th
HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback →
Feb 11th
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.
Feb 10th
Fred Wilson: Flash, HTML5, and Mobile Apps →
Feb 7th
The Future of Web Content – HTML5, Flash & Mobile... →
(via soupsoup)
Feb 6th
6 notes
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...
Feb 5th
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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...
Feb 3rd
HTML5 is great for mobile, developers say →
Feb 2nd
PhoneGap →
PhoneGap is an open source library that gives you — a mobile web developer — access to the device’s features such as location, accelerometer, contact list, etc. It works (to varying degrees) on iPhone, Android, Palm, Symbian, and BlackBerry.
Feb 1st
January 2010
4 posts
Beautiful HTML5 "Sublime" Video Player →
Jan 30th
HTML5 and the Future of the Web →
(via soupsoup)
Jan 30th
6 notes
“If you haven’t been paying attention, over the past couple of years, the web...”
– Yehuda Katz: The Irony of iPad: A Great Day For Open Technologies
Jan 28th
“Back to the nuts and bolts of the new Google Voice web app though — it shows the...”
– Google Voice Lands on iPhone and Palm as a Web App Yes! (via bijan)
Jan 26th
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