Archive of HTML5
Visualizing Option Prices
The easiest way to make sense of a lot numbers is to turn them into a picture. This doesn’t come as much of a surprise: While it takes a lot of conscious effort to see trends, movements and tendencies within a large set of figures we find it rather easy…
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Server Scalability – HTML5 websockets vs Comet
There’s an interesting discussion over on stackoverflow about server scalability and HTML5 WebSockets vs Comet. I have blogged in the past on the topic of server performance and about WebSocket and have just contributed to the stackoverflow thread. Anyway, here’s the link.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9107384/server-scalability-html-5-websockets-vs-comet
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The world went HTML5, finally Adobe are catching up!
Yesterday’s announcement by Adobe that they were abandoning Flash for mobile was greeted with almost universal acclaim in the tech blogosphere. Unusually, there weren’t many people surprised or disappointed by the decision. Why? Well, It turns out that Steve Jobs wasn’t just being spiteful to Adobe by preventing Flash from…
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Financial Times Proves HTML5 Can Beat Native Mobile Apps
A colleague sent out a link to this article over the weekend – well worth a read. Apparently when Apple decided that publishers had to hand over 30% of the revenue of apps sold via the iTunes store, the FT decided to take a different route and pull their app…
Read MoreFinancial Times chooses HTML5 over Native app
The Financial Times has become the first major news application to switch from a native app to an HTML5 web app. They explain their reasons here and experiences – http://aboutus.ft.com/2011/06/07/ft-web-app-technical-qa/
Read MoreGoogle detail browser support plan
I’m sure this has been mentioned before, but maybe this is more specific details, but Google have decided to only support the latest two versions of any browser. As soon as a new version is released, an older one will stop being supported. That means no more support for IE7,…
Read MoreWindows 8 with HTML5/JavaScript apps
Microsoft have previewed Windows 8 at the D9 conference, including a video showing it off. It seems like a slightly crazy mix of backwards compatibility and some quite cool new ideas that are meant to be suitable for keyboard/mouse based systems as well as touch based. What is interesting though…
Read MoreIE10 preview already available!
Before IE9 has started walking and talking, Microsoft have just announced at MIX11 that they are already well underway with the development of IE10 and developers can download the first platform preview release. They are aiming for a September beta, and say it will include some newer HTML5 and CSS3…
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