Smartphones run HTML5 a lot slower than PCs
Benchmarks run by Spaceport.io show that HTML5 runs "six to ten times slower" on smartphones than...
22 May, 2012 by Jack SchofieldZDNet is available in the following editions:
HTML5 will be the development language of the cloud for the next decade. This revision knows about content. It knows about applications, and it knows about data. It's a powerful way to access almost anything online through your browser.
It's also demanding. Whether you're a web developer, a web designer or a web user, you need to know what it is, how it works and how to use it. You'll need to know how the tools you already have will work with this next stage in the web's development. Find the answers to that and the other questions you should be asking on ZDNet UK's HTML5 hot topic.
Benchmarks run by Spaceport.io show that HTML5 runs "six to ten times slower" on smartphones than...
22 May, 2012 by Jack SchofieldTests run by Spaceport.io show that devices running Apple's iOS operating system run HTML5 much...
6 March, 2012 by Jack Schofield
Google Docs has gained offline capabilities on Android devices and also now features enhanced...
2 February, 2012 by David MeyerThe BBC has switched from Flash to HTML5 for streaming video on its mobile news site, according...
22 December, 2011 by David MeyerThe UK online film provider Lovefilm is dropping Adobe's Flash as its delivery technology in...
2 December, 2011 by David Meyer
To be honest, Adobe's announcement that its future mobile strategy was going to be focused on...
9 November, 2011 by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has criticised an "uninformed" and "unimaginative" remark made by...
13 October, 2011 by Tom EspinerThe Internet Explorer 6 deathclock continues to count down, with global usage now less than 10% -...
1 August, 2011 by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe
HTML5 needs development tools. It's a powerful way of building next-generation web applications,...
1 August, 2011 by First TakeAt MIX11 Microsoft promised that there would be new Platform Preview releases of Internet...
4 July, 2011 by First Take
I am immensely excited. Not only am I working on the hottest day of the year, I am also building...
22 April, 2011 by Jake RaysonEven though IE9 supports Google's WebM HTML5 video codec 'natively (for values of 'native'...
11 April, 2011 by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe
Q&A Mozilla's Jay Sullivan discusses the ambitious Boot 2 Gecko project, a HTML5-based smartphone OS designed to give developers and consumers a technology-agnostic platform with greater privacy and security Read more
31 March, 2012 by Ben Woods 1 commentNews Interest in developing mobile apps for Android has dipped slightly as developers lean towards web apps, a new survey has found Read more
20 March, 2012 by Stephen ShanklandNews A veteran Flash evangelist from Adobe has explicitly said that Apple's refusal to allow Flash into the iOS browser was a major factor in the plug-in technology being dropped from mobile devices Read more
14 November, 2011 by David Meyer 2 commentsNews Adobe will focus its mobile developments on HTML5 rather than Flash in the future, as the open standard-based media technology is more widely supported across a range of mobile devices Read more
9 November, 2011 by Ben WoodsNews Kindle Format 8, or KF8, will replace Mobi 7 for Amazon's ebooks, bringing web technologies and better graphics to the Kindle Fire tablet device Read more
24 October, 2011 by Stephen ShanklandNews The Metro-style version of Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 will not support plug-ins, although a more traditional fallback version will still play along with Flash and similar technologies Read more
16 September, 2011 by David Meyer 1 commentNews The company has released its first update to Edge, which allows developers to use open web standards rather than Flash to create animations for online content Read more
9 September, 2011 by Stephen ShanklandNews The software maker has kicked off a public preview of its Edge development tools, which use open web standards such as HTML 5 rather than its flagship Flash platform to create animations Read more
1 August, 2011 by Ben WoodsNews Mozilla programmers have reached an important step in the development of pdf.js, a PDF reader that uses JavaScript and HTML 5 Read more
5 July, 2011 by Stephen ShanklandNews The company has made available a second platform preview of the forthcoming Internet Explorer 10, which promises speedier performance and HTML 5 support Read more
1 July, 2011 by Jay GreeneNews The latest version of the web browser has built web apps into its Speed Dial feature, allowing developers to make greater use of HTML 5 and CSS Read more
28 June, 2011 by Seth RosenblattNews Adobe's new design software helps designers create web animations using technology such as HTML 5 and CSS Read more
24 June, 2011 by Stephen ShanklandNews The company says HTML 5 technology and hardware acceleration should speed up its cloud-based storage service Read more
21 June, 2011 by Jay GreeneNews The multiple development of web protocols such as HTML 5 could end up fragmenting the effort, according to Tim Berners-Lee Read more
18 April, 2011 by Tom Espiner 3 commentsNews At MIX11 in Las Vegas, the software maker launched a platform preview of IE10, its next browser, stressing its continued commitment to HTML 5 and web standards Read more
13 April, 2011 by Simon Bisson
This is just dumb! Forget that I think Windows 8 will bomb, but really, people are going to go out and buy touch Monitors now??? Just pretend...
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@JoshArg - Well, I am writing this from my N150 Plus, running Ubuntu 12.04 and using a Bluetooth mouse (well, to be totally correct it is a...
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