I keep reading things like 63% of the worlds financial transactions move through an SAP system. These kinds of numbers reflect the pull and push that SAP can have on the entire IT marketplace. Their endorse of HTML5 and its use in the enterprise will change many roadmaps in this industry.
The mobile web is dividing the Silicon Valley technology
companies, which could slow down innovation.
“Official statements from all of these companies show the same thing:
They believe in the power and potential of the mobile web to flourish and
eventually become more prevalent than native platforms.” Read original content
Flickr is launching a new HTML5 photo uploader for
images. The HTML5 technology provides
additional features such as drag and drop functionality. Other improvements are an average 20-30
percent increase in upload speed and an increase in file size limits. Read original content
HTML5 adds a “scoped” attribute to the style element,
allowing the developer to nest styles within HTML. The scoped style attribute is described and
illustrated in this article. Read original content
According to research from eMarketer, 29.7 percent of
Americans were accessing the mobile web on a regular basis by the end of 2011,
and predict the number will grow to 36 percent in 2012. Read original content
With website traffic from mobile devices on the rise, mobile
software development firms are scrambling to expand their mobile web
development services to enable businesses to keep up with the mobile web trend. Read original content
Rapid Intake has launched a new mobile learning development
system, enabling developers to “deploy training courses in HTML5 format as a
downloaded application, allowing mobile learners access to their courses while
they are offline”. Read original content
Google has unveiled a new resource, The Mobile Playbook, to
assist companies and advertisers in building a mobile campaign. The Mobile Playbook was built in HTML5 and
optimized for viewing on tablet devices.
"[Because] the Mobile Playbook site is built with HTML5, we had the
flexibility to customize the experience for different types of screens." Read original content
RIM is incorporating HTML5 technology as one of the key
strategies “to create a viable ecosystem of applications for a new generation
of mobile devices expected to ship by year-end”. Read original content
Built as an experiment to test the boundaries of HTML5,
ForestFly is a Facebook photo gallery visualizer built entirely with HTML5
elements, primarily Canvas. Read original content
Three examples of impressive 8-bit color-cycled landscape
images running on HTML5.
Two of the developers of the popular Angry Birds games have
left Rovio and created their own game studio, Boomlagoon, and will focus on
creating mobile and web based games with HTML5.
Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus
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Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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