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... →
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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...
HTML5 is great for mobile, developers say →
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.