Before we begin, we ought to define the terms, HTML5 app and Native app, to prevent ambiguities, and needless arguments in the comments. If you intend to develop a graphic intensive game, you almost ...

HTML5 versus native apps. It’s a debate as old as — well, at least three years ago. And pretty much since the beginning of that debate, there has been a general underlying current among the geek ...

For a couple of years now, we’ve been talking about apps for a multitude of purposes. Mobile apps continue to be the preferred way to deliver new services or content to mobile devices. But the whole ...

Building apps in HTML5 and JavaScript may be easier than using other development tools, but there's still a learning curve. In the following interview, "Programming HTML5 Applications" author Zachary ...

While Android and iOS are the platforms that will guarantee mobile developers an audience in the US and Europe, developers in much of the rest of the world favour HTML5 over iOS. Among mobile app ...

Apple's new rules have forced e-book sellers to remove buy links from their iOS apps. Now Kobo says it's developing an HTML5 Web app that can be accessed from any Web browser, circumventing Apple's ...

If your organisation is still getting to grips with smartphone apps it may be in for a shock - an even newer class of app is bearing down, one which promises to cut multi-platform development hassles ...

While Android and iOS top the charts in the mobile app-building business, other native application-building operating systems like Blackberry, Windows and others are also making stringent efforts get ...

Step aside, Financial Times and Quartz — there’s now a higher-profile adherent to the HTML5 web app faith. But as we’ve explored here before, going web-first still comes with a mix of advantages and ...

Over the past few months, my colleague MG Siegler has been piecing together the puzzle around Facebook’s Project Spartan, which is the social network’s secret plan to bring applications to the mobile ...

In proper fashion, Facebook didn't make the new HTML5 web app available for the iPad, leaving users to the bulky desktop site while browsing in Safari. But with this trick, you can use Facebook's ...