Archive of html5
What I Learnt at SPA 2011
After weeks of keen anticipation, not to mention many long nights of preparation for my own session, SPA 2011 has now been and gone. Overall it was an excellent conference with a great group of attendees. The numerous inter-session conversations I had with fellow attendees were as enlightening as the…
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Financial 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 MoreCould Mobile Safari become the next IE 6?
I heard a great quote a year or two ago about how software developers always want to reinvent the wheel. Most other scientific disciplines require you to learn from others before building upon what they have done. Sir Issac Newton’s oft quoted “if I have seen further it is only…
Read MoreThe Mobile Web getting faster
There is more to the Mobile Web than just Apple products, but with the recent announcement of the iPad 2 and iOS 4.3 things are looking interesting. The new iPad has a new faster dual core processor, but less publicised is the increase in memory to 512MB which helps a…
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Why iOS isn’t ready for HTML5, yet…
Okay, just teasing! My recent experiences creating an HTML5 based mobile web app for iOS has been, on the whole, very pleasant indeed. However, I recently wrote a similarly tilted article “Why Android isn’t ready for HTML5, yet…” which discussed some far more serious bugs I encountered that prevented me getting…
Read MoreWhy Android isn’t ready for HTML5, yet…
I recently created an HTML5 based mobile web app, with the aim that it would work on iOS, Android, and all modern desktop browsers. Unfortunately, although the demo was viewed as a success since almost everyone viewing it did so using iPads and iPhones, it was a failure in the…
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