Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 – Week of September 2, 2012

As many readers may know, Facebook replaced their HTML5 version of their mobile app a few weeks ago, in favor of a native application written in Object C.  It is much faster and smoother now, however, several functions disappeared with this change.  You can no longer just steal your friends photos by holding down on the image and selecting “Save Image.”  You can also no longer simply swipe to delete a snarky comment that seemed funny when it first entered your brain, but now seems ill conceived (I used this a lot!), and pasted links are now handled awkwardly.  This is the give and take between HTML5 and native applications that makes our lives interesting.

Telenav’s Scout for Apps, the HTML5-based voice guided
mobile GPS navigation service is now available for Android and Windows Phone
platforms.  Read Original Content

Gizmodo asks “Do you prefer the unregulated world of HTML5
apps, or would you rather stick to the status quo of native apps, with their
additional polish and ability to better function offline?” and receives a wide
range of responses.  Read OriginalContent

Facebook has abandoned HTML5 and unveiled the rebuilt app
(rewritten in Objective C) for iPhone and iPad devices, addressing numerous
performance issues with the HTML5 version. 
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Adobe has released the new version of Contribute, 6.5, now
with HTML5 and jQuery Mobile support. 
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This article, “Property Finder – a Cross-Platform HTML5
Mobile App”, is a tutorial for the development of a cross-platform HTML5 mobile
app for searching property listings in the U.K. using JavaScript, jQuery
Mobile, Knockout, and Apache Cordova (formerly called PhoneGap).  Read Original Content

Rob Gravelle reviews and provides examples for using the
HTML5 Canvas charting library PlotKit in this article from HTML Goodies.  Read Original Content

Research and Markets has added a new report titled “HTML5:
New Monetization Opportunities for Service Providers”, which focuses on
opportunities created by HTML5 and its implications for mobile
applications.  Read Original Content

The new version of Firefox for Android is now available with
new HTML5 capabilities, enabling developers to create Web apps and websites
based on HTML5, JavaScript, CSS and other open Web standards.  Read Original Content

The website caniuse.com provides compatibility tables for
support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers.  This view is for HTML5 on mobile
browsers.  Read Original Content

“HTML5 will fundamentally change the way we make video games.”  HTML5 is a great platform for powering games
and the tools used to build them. 
Developers need to be aware of the limitations and understand that the
standard is still evolving.  ReadOriginal Content

The W3C has published the first editor’s draft of the HTML
Responsive Images Extension, available here: 
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-proposals/raw-file/tip/responsive-images/responsive-images.html  Read Original Content

Location analytics startup Placed has announced the launch
of support for mobile websites, now providing location data from any mobile
browser that supports HTML5.  ReadOriginal Content

Recent research from ComScore MobiLens revealed a preference
for mobile users to download content via apps (51.1 percent) rather than
through a browser (49.8 percent). 
Organizations must decide the best fit for their business – mobile apps
or mobile websites.  Mike Ricci from
Webtrends believes that HTML5 provides developers a tool for creating a mobile
website that is virtually indistinguishable from an app and actually addresses
some of the shortcomings for apps, closing the gap between apps and mobile
websites.  Read Original Content

Microsoft is adding more HTML5 and CSS3 features in Internet
Explorer 10 and is showing them off in a partnership with Atari that brings
users 8 classic games.  Read OriginalContent

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