Modern HTML rendering engines and emerging standards make it possible to create a new class of rich experiences that could previously be achieved only with native development toolkits—but developers need better Web development frameworks and authoring tools in order to take advantage of the possibilities.Three new open-source software projects developed at Motorola Mobility hope to address the problem. Tim Statler, Zachary Cohen, and Kris Kowal had the pleasure of working on a new content creation tool called Ninja, a JavaScript development framework called Montage, and a testi... Read More

Today’s web applications are put together a mesh up a new experiences into one experience. Think Twitter widgets showing the latest tweets about a product. Or Facebook comments discussing an article. Or even just integrated web pages through an IFRAME element. These experiences can increase security breaches to your site.To your rescue there’s a new kid on the block to help you out: The HTML5 Sandbox. Dariusz Parys in this article at first quickly reviews IFRAME element issues which have in them valid security concerns hadn’t been properly addressed by a standards b... Read More

Professionally designed and neatly coded templates always make life easier for developers, not only because they save time, but also for the effort they save. Since web development is an ever expanding field, it is important for developers to keep their work up to date with the latest changes. HTML5 and CSS3 templates are there to make your websites future proof and make them even more accessible.Nousheen Aquil, in this article discusses and presents a brilliant collection of some fresh and free HTML5 and CSS3 templates that you can download today. The author who is a web graphic des... Read More

A good-looking application must provide user with visual feedback. Users must always know that an order (a click, a tap or whatever) is well received and understood by the application and animations are a great tool to do so. The new HTML 5 specification introduces a great tool to handle simple animations: the transitions. According to “CSS Transitions Module Level 3” specification on W3C site, CSS3 Transitions allows property changes in CSS values to occur smoothly over a specified duration. David Rousset, in this article aims to first describe the concept of transition... Read More

One of the essential problems with any new technology is whether to adopt it and relentlessly abandon users who are not able to upgrade or miss out on new possibilities and eventually become irrelevant. The middle way of course is to fly to the latest technologies as soon as they are stable enough but also provide fallbacks and, where necessary, reduced functionality to users of older systems. This has been the lot of any web developer for years now, where the round blue albatross around everyone necks has been IE6. Every code path has a cost, and supporting multiple different genera... Read More

One of the more exciting developments in HTML5 video is the inclusion of the track element in the newest versions of the desktop browsers. In addition to bringing captioning and subtitle support to HTML5 video, the invisible track element allows publishers to attach a rich array of textual metadata to their videos. In this blog post, we'll look at the different types of tracks that can be used in conjunction with the <video> tag.Before proceeding any further, lets look at one of its flaws. The track element is extremely new, and browser support is growing, but limited. The curr... Read More

The demand for zero footprint applications is growing rapidly, especially in the healthcare industry with the increasing popularity and usage of tablets and mobile devices by healthcare providers. There are many ways to display DICOM images and communicate with a PACS over the web or intranet in a zero footprint manner, but not all applications are created equal. LEADTOOLS is the only medical imaging SDK to offer full, 12/16 bit grayscale client-side window leveling. LEAD’s HTML5 and JavaScript viewer control provides unparalleled speed and features in a cross-platform, zero f... Read More

The HTML5 Header and Footer elements are new elements added to help web designers better define the semantic structure of their web pages. According to the HTML5 specification, the Header element represents a group of introductory or navigational aids. And the Footer element represents a footer for the nearest ancestor sectioning content or sectioning root. It typically contains information about the section, including the author, related documents, copyright data, and so on. The Header and Footer elements are not sectioning elements. They do not change the outline of the document an... Read More

June was never so idiosyncratic as this year's in terms of mobile software development. In the span of just a few weeks, Apple unveiled its iOS 6 operating system update, followed in quick succession by the introductions of Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 and Google's Android 4.1, a.k.a. Jelly Bean. All three upgrades not only signals steps forward for their respective platforms, but also present new challenges for developers looking to create and distribute applications optimized for all segments of the mobile subscriber population, regardless of the user's OS or device. Those complexit... Read More

HTML5 is great for game development - sure, there are a lot of skeptics, but the ability to create a game that runs on all platforms with very little modification is unparalleled. This article three part series where tips will be shared for developing a cross-platform HTML5 game. In the first part the author goes over some of the visual and performance aspects when dealing with various screen sizes. It covers CSS3 media queries for UI, scaling the game, retina displays, "full screen" on mobile, "installing" the game on mobile and improving FPS through use of subca... Read More

Web 2.0 style integration has become the norm with REST and SOA-based APIs. WebSockets can deliver the speed and scale necessary to make it the perfect answer to infrastructure integration challenges. Lori Macvittie in a blog raises one of the concerns that arose early in the days of discussing Infrastructure 2.0, aka Dynamic Infrastructure. It was the performance of integration methods. While collaboration across and between infrastructure components what was harder to envision was a way in which such integration could be realized without compromising on performance. Traditional dat... Read More

Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects support for various HTML and CSS features. While it is possible to do this work yourself, Modernizr does it in an easy-to-use package that is well tested and easily configured. It detects what the browser’s capabilities are and can use JavaScript to add to the DOM the elements and CSS classes that you need. This is known as a polyfill.Justin James, in this article gives in-depth knowledge about Modernizr. It gives developers the ability to use HTML5 today while addressing concerns about older browsers. The author also discusses som... Read More

The Internet since 2004, has witnessed many innovations in itself. Map applications, mail services, SNS and other services have changed our lifestyles. It has built up new business opportunities, and become an important part of cloud services. In 2004, browser vendors began a study called Web Application 1.0. The work was committed by the international standardization consortium W3C in 2007, and became known as HTML5.HTML5 originally focused on specific features, including markup language, image processing, audio and video support, etc. But now HTML5 has been expanded to include more... Read More

HTML5 might not be right for every organization at this point. Whether it's justified for a specific situation requires detailed knowledge of end-users' browsers, the parts of HTML5 used, and an organization's goals for its Web presence. No practical applications yet use all of HTML5. The compatibility of the parts you need, with the browsers your end-users run, and your server-side technology, is a matter for thoughtful consultation. But, it's safe to say that now is the time for most development shops to adopt HTML5. Cameron Laird in this article asks the developers to start taking... Read More

The gaming industry has evolved in to a whale of a industry. With the rapid and massive advancement in technology, it has come a long way from the handheld devices with black and white displays and monotonous beep like sounds. Now the graphics and the sounds are much advanced and attractive. And with the popularization of smartphones, the gaming apps have yet another lucrative option to look forward to. The most popular games are coming out with gaming apps. There are several platforms on which the gaming apps are developed.David Parker, in this article discusses one such platform ca... Read More

There are lots of changes happening to the key technologies that power the web. HTML5, the new version of HTML, offers impressive enhancements for rich web applications. With its rise we’ll also see new security issues arising up. For a new technology such as HTML5, it’s typical to have defects and pitfalls. Moreover with defining standard is still in the progress, it's already being implemented. James Lyne, in this article discusses how does HTML5 stand up to security scrutiny. HTML5 provides deep inroad to the computer’s resources than its predecessor. It is compe... Read More

Microsoft really jumped on the HTML5 bandwagon in a big way with Internet Explorer 9. Support for several features defined in the HTML5 Working Draft specification began with Windows Internet Explorer 8 and was extended in Windows Internet Explorer 9.HTML5 has now also paved in to newly coming release of Windows, now officially called Windows 8. This is also regarded as a new opening toward frontend, web developers with wide adoption and embrace of HTML5 related technologies. Though Windows 8 supports developing with .NET and XAML, it also provided a new option, HTML5/CSS and JavaScr... Read More

In this techno driven world Internet plays a very cardinal role in our everyday lives. From a venue for social interaction, entertainment, services to becoming the primary source for all types of information, it goes on to become a versatile tool. But to truly succeed in today's Web-driven world, we need to optimise how we use the Internet as a learning resource. Birathon Kasemsri Na Ayudhaya in this article explains that a good place to start is to learn more about the best Web-browsing technology available. He goes ahead to state that Internet Explorer 9 is one browser that can giv... Read More

Adobe Flash, as we all know is a powerful authoring environment for creating animation and multimedia content. As far as developing of online games is concerned it is still the boss which calls most of the shots. Its popularity can be measured by the fact that the term “flash games” has almost become synonymous with browser based games in general. However things are changing, and Flash may no longer be the best fit for many online applications. Browsers have become smarter now and can display interactive and graphically intense pages all by themselves. W3C, the specifica... Read More

HTML5 is offering the potential for a single application development language deployable, across any browser and device. As a result a growing number of companies and VCs are betting heavily on the technology. Recently spaceport.io has released the second iteration of its PerfMarks Report, meant to address some of the disconnects in the tech community around the current state of HTML5 performance on mobile phones. The report compares the ability of modern mobile phones and laptops to render HTML5.This report presents some surprising findings. It compares HTML5 performance between mod... Read More