Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of October 21, 2012

I gave a presentation on SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) at a large high tech conference this week in Scottsdale, AZ.  During my presentation I surveyed the audience by a show of hands and asked how many were planning to pre-dominantly develop using HTML5 (or HTML5 hybrid apps), and how many were planning to use native.  About two thirds were planning to use HTML5 for their app development projects.

Also last week, I interviewed Tony Kueh, SAP's Head of Mobile Platform Solutions and Strategies about HTML5 vendors and SAP's open strategy for working with them in this video interview.  It is interesting who SAP picked to work with around HTML5 development.

Now for the news...

HTML5 is an option publishers should consider for delivering content to mobile devices.  Giles Phillips of Brightcove believes that HTML5 has “definitely created more flexibility for publishers and has helped make responsive web design a viable option for publishers with a blended content mix”.  Read Original Content

Microsoft and developers of the physics puzzle game Contre Jour have teamed up to utilize HTML5 to create the game for the Web in what Microsoft calls one of the most ambitious uses of HTML5 to date.  Read Original Content

Quark has launched an upgrade to its AppStudio program for creating and publishing mobile apps.  The new version is HTML5-based, providing features including searchable, selectable text, tagging, bookmarking, commenting, and multifaceted social media interaction.  Read Original Content

AOL’s new HTML5-based version of Games.com is cross-platform, available on PC’s, smartphones and tablets and provides access to more than 5000 titles.  Read OriginalContent

The selection of mobile development tools has never been richer and more affordable as it is today.  Mel Beckman provides information and advice for developers not sure whether to go with native apps, HTML5 web apps, or a hybrid approach in this article in PC Advisor.  Read Original Content

HTML5 has the potential for growth in areas such as graphics rendering and Web services protocol and it ultimately helps developers and content providers remove the "chains" from being tied to native platform owners.  Read Original Content

Dolphin has launched a new companion app for its Android browser and the company claims that “Dolphin Jetpack” brings 5-10 times faster HTML5 rendering performance than the stock Android browser.  Read Original Content

With the growing popularity of mobile websites, HTML5 rich media banners have become an excellent way for advertisers to communicate with their target audiences. “With the increased demand for rich media, HTML5 is transforming the landscape of mobile advertising and advertisers are starting to see the successes.”  Read OriginalContent

Sony’s newly redesigned PlayStation Store was built in HTML5 to provide flexibility for the company to seamlessly add new features and capabilities.  Read Original Content

Opera Software has launched Opera Mobile 12.1 for Android with additional HTML5 features including HTML5 Drag and Drop and the HTML5 Clipboard API.  Read Original Content

Software FX has announced the release and availability of jChartFX, a free collection of charts and graphs for business data visualization and analysis for HTML5, jQuery and JavaScript developers.  Read Original Content

SAP’s mobile HTML5 apps program for developers has produced a number of apps which are “clearly focused on what the biggest enterprises and businesses need to get work done on a mobile scale”.  Read Original Content

Phone Arena conducted an iPhone 5 vs. Samsung Galaxy S3 comparison test to see which device performs better with HTML5.  Read Original Content

Lori MacVittie of F5 explores the question “Is HTML5 the Answer to Mobile's VDI Challenge?”  ReadOriginal Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of October 15, 2012

The New York Times has rolled out an HTML5 web app for Apple’s iPad, an addition to the native apps already available.  Read Original Content

The preview of Oracle’s NetBeans Integrated Development Environment 7.3 features new advanced HTML5, JavaScript and CSS development capabilities and is now available for download.  Read Original Content

Microsoft developed TypeScript as a way to help JavaScript scale to larger, more media rich HTML5 projects and they’ve announced that TypeScript is now available for developers and programmers to download a preview, test it in the “TypeScript online playground”, or obtain the source code.  Read Original Content

Google’s Chrome 23 beta adds track support for HTML5 video that enables developers to add elements such as subtitles, captions, chapters, descriptions and metadata to videos.  Read Original Content

Mobile app performance management platform Crittercism, has launched a new mobile app crash reporting service for HTML5 allowing developers to view errors and issues for HTML5, mobile Web and hybrid apps.  Read Original Content

According to Facebook developer advocate Simon Cross, those advocating HTML5 on mobile devices must ”step up their efforts and solve issues with performance and monetization in order for the technology to reach its true potential”.  Read Original Content

A free new PDF editor from Docudesk enables users to edit, share and fax PDF documents from within the browser and can be used from a number of devices including Apple’s iPad and iPhone.  Read Original Content

Sports Illustrated has re-launched its mobile website which is now HTML5-based.  Read OriginalContent

Web designer Tim G. Thomas describes the business case for “Building a Non-Native Mobile HTML5 App”.  Parts 2 - Choosing a Technology Stack and 3 - Hooking Things Together are also available.  Read OriginalContent

As a tribute to Steve Jobs, a developer created a virtual classic iPod using HTML5 and CSS3.  ReadOriginal Content

French developers have created cHTeMeLe, a board game about writing HTML5 code.  Read OriginalContent

Kris Ostrowka, a business development associate at StepLeader, outlines “What You Need to Know about HTML5 vs. Native Apps” in this article in Mobile Marketer.  ReadOriginal Content

The W3C partnered with tech firms including Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, and Microsoft to create a website to serve as a resource for developers seeking information on HTML5, CSS3, and other open-web standards.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of October 7th, 2012

I conducted a workshop via webex yesterday with a mining company in Australia.  It was interesting that they had a strong preference for HTML5 apps running on a cloud based mobile platform.  Their thinking was that they want mobile solutions now, but they see no need to sink a lot of money into on-premise solutions and mobile platforms yet.  They felt that HTML5 would give them the most flexibility and easiest implementations and deployments at this time as they mature their own mobile strategies and infrastructure and wait to see who the winners will be in the mobile platform market.

Now for the news...

Intel has continued to survey developers to find out where things are going with HTML5, and 40 percent of those surveyed said that they are already using HTML5 in some way in their development, and the other 40 percent of the survey developers said they planned to use it.  Read Original Content

In this video interview, Adam ‘HTML5 Guru’ Stanley Tells How RIM is Using HTML5 in BlackBerry 10.  (Click here to see the video on YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy4fOzQeCY8)  Read Original Content

A new video game, Brainworth, teaches its users about the principles of computer science and skills required to create HTML5 online games.  Read Original Content

Education technology firm Desmos, Inc. has developed a graphing calculator with an interactive HTML5 graphing platform that works across all modern browsers. Read Original Content

A recent webcast on the subject of using HTML5 for web-based trading applications is available.  The webcast discussion is based on the question:  “Is it feasible to adopt HTML5 as an enterprise development technology now, what are the issues, and how can they be addressed?”  Read Original Content

A new report by mobility analyst Kevin Benedict documents the plans and insights of over 120 people involved in enterprise mobility.  When asked how important HTML5 and HTML5 hybrid apps were to their company's enterprise mobility plans, 45% answered it was "very important," and 14% said it was "critical."  Download the entire Mid-Year Enterprise Mobility 2012 Survey report for free here.

A recent study by adtech company Kontera based on data from 15,000 U.S. publisher partners revealed that mobile web traffic is up 430 percent between January and July this year and mobile Web browsing now accounts for 22 percent of web traffic.  Read Original Content

Apple iOS users who have upgraded to iOS 6 or bought an iPhone 5 may be missing Google Maps features, but it is still available as Google is actively maintaining the HTML5-based mobile Web version of Google Maps.  Google Street View will be soon available on the mobile Web version. Read Original Content

A new report from BI Intelligence explains why Facebook abandoned HTML5 for now including topics such as:  HTML5 app functionality still leaves much to be desired; HTML5 has a fragmentation problem; and The promise of HTML5 remains.  Read Original Content

A research report from Strategy Analytics forecasts that the HTML5-focused Firefox OS will capture only 1 percent of the market in 2013.  Read Original Content

An article in PCQuest demonstrates how to remotely debug a mobile HTML5 app with a remote inspector.  Read Original Content

Eyepartner has released Channel Manager HTML5 V1.0, enabling users to publish video and audio into playlists by dragging and dropping content in a channel lineup, and to build unlimited scheduled programming for playback on Roku set-top boxes and HTML5 5-compatible players including iPad and iPhone.  Read Original Content

Google uses HTML5 animations to illustrate its economic impact for each state in the U.S. on its Economic Impact page (http://www.google.com/economicimpact/)   Read Original Content

Oracle has added three new PeopleSoft mobile applications which utilize HTML5 and CSS3 and do not require download.  Read Original Content

A panel discussion which took place on the last day of the World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Boston included topics such as the future of mobile, how the mobile interface will evolve, app stores, and HTML5.  Read Original Content

In this article in TechRepublic, “Why you’d be stupid to bet against HTML5”, author Nick Heath explains that although HTML5’s credentials as a mobile development platform have been called into question, it is still set to play a key role as the basis for mobile apps.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of September 23, 2012

Here are the comments, opinions and actions taken by both supporters and opponents of HTML5 that I have found this week.  It is never a dull discussion.

Native apps tend to have a smoother look and feel, more polish, and are able to leverage elements of their native operating system to feel more deeply integrated into the device.  However, building for multiple platforms and devices is expensive while web apps, built in standards-based technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3, will work on devices across a range of sizes by being adaptive and responsive.  Read Original Content

Brendan Eich, the chief technology officer at Mozilla, admits that HTML5 still faces standardization issues, and by continuing to lead development of essential HTML5 standards, Mozilla will actually make developers' lives easier.  Read Original Content

The much-publicized quote from Mark Zuckerberg, stating that the biggest mistake Facebook made was betting too much on HTML5 doesn’t tell the entire story.  The full quote, on Facebook software engineer Tobie Langel’s blog is:  “When I’m introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native… because it just wasn’t there. And it’s not that HTML5 is bad. I’m actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that’s interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.”  Read Original Content

While stating that the company believes HTML5 has been “very over-hyped”, Intel software executive Renee James goes on to say that Intel is “committed to making sure HTML5 remains open, cross-platform, and has the right performance”.  Read Original Content

Adobe has made an effort to have its tools work on multiple platforms - PCs, tablets, and smartphones - using HTML5 and dynamic layout reformatting tailored to each device type.  The company is now promoting free “Create the Web” events to show off new tools and services for HTML5, CSS3, motion graphics, web development and more.  Read Original Content

appMobi has announced the launch privateStack, an HTML5-based, app development and cloud services platform that will enable businesses to develop their own cloud stack for mobile apps for business operations.  Read Original Content

Donald MacCormick in BI Dashboards provides a video of an HTML5 dashboard prototype in action.  Read Original Content

Facebook software engineer Tobie Langel outlines the HTML5 flaws that Facebook encountered including a lack of tooling in mobile browsers, scrolling performance problems, and technical problems such as stuttering and GPU buffer exhaustion.  Read OriginalContent

Xamarin CEO Nat Freidman believes the mobile industry is moving too fast for HTML5 and Web standards-based development to keep up, and he feels a lot more developers will start to build natively.  An IDC analyst states “We are now in a bit of a disillusionment phase for HTML5 as early adopters push the boundaries of the capabilities and sometimes fail”.  ReadOriginal Content

This article from HTML5 Goodies explores the changes with HTML5 Semantics – HTML5 tags that have been removed and new HTML5 elements.  Read Original Content

Jadu will offer its mobile app publishing platform Weejot.com free to every school, college and university in the U.K. to enable students to improve their programming skills using HTML5 and JavaScript.  Read Original Content

Serdar Yegulalp writes in Information Week’s Byte newsletter that although he “can’t stand” programming in HTML5, he sees it thriving in the long run, because it’s the most widely-recognized starting point. HTML5 “doesn't give the most powerful base to build on, but it provides the lowest barrier to entry, and one of the fastest ways to get something into people's hands”.  Read Original Content

A collection of 10 useful infographics about HTML5 is provided in this article by Jacob Gube in Six Revisions.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.