Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 – Week of October 21, 2012

I gave a presentation on SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) at a large high tech conference this week in Scottsdale, AZ.  During my presentation I surveyed the audience by a show of hands and asked how many were planning to pre-dominantly develop using HTML5 (or HTML5 hybrid apps), and how many were planning to use native.  About two thirds were planning to use HTML5 for their app development projects.

Also last week, I interviewed Tony Kueh, SAP’s Head of Mobile Platform Solutions and Strategies about HTML5 vendors and SAP’s open strategy for working with them in this video interview.  It is interesting who SAP picked to work with around HTML5 development.

Now for the news…

HTML5 is an option publishers should consider for delivering
content to mobile devices.  Giles
Phillips of Brightcove believes that HTML5 has “definitely created more
flexibility for publishers and has helped make responsive web design a viable
option for publishers with a blended content mix”.  Read Original Content

Microsoft and developers of the physics puzzle game Contre
Jour have teamed up to utilize HTML5 to create the game for the Web in what
Microsoft calls one of the most ambitious uses of HTML5 to date.  Read Original Content

Quark has launched an upgrade to its AppStudio program for
creating and publishing mobile apps.  The
new version is HTML5-based, providing features including searchable, selectable
text, tagging, bookmarking, commenting, and multifaceted social media
interaction.  Read Original Content

AOL’s new HTML5-based version of Games.com is
cross-platform, available on PC’s, smartphones and tablets and provides access
to more than 5000 titles.  Read OriginalContent

The selection of mobile development tools has never been
richer and more affordable as it is today. 
Mel Beckman provides information and advice for developers not sure
whether to go with native apps, HTML5 web apps, or a hybrid approach in this
article in PC Advisor.  Read Original Content

HTML5 has the potential for growth in areas such as graphics
rendering and Web services protocol and it ultimately helps developers and
content providers remove the “chains” from being tied to native
platform owners.  Read Original Content

Dolphin has launched a new companion app for its Android
browser and the company claims that “Dolphin Jetpack” brings 5-10 times faster
HTML5 rendering performance than the stock Android browser.  Read Original Content

With the growing popularity of mobile websites, HTML5 rich
media banners have become an excellent way for advertisers to communicate with
their target audiences. “With the increased demand for rich media, HTML5 is
transforming the landscape of mobile advertising and advertisers are starting
to see the successes.”  Read OriginalContent

Sony’s newly redesigned PlayStation Store was built in HTML5
to provide flexibility for the company to seamlessly add new features and
capabilities.  Read Original Content

Opera Software has launched Opera Mobile 12.1 for Android
with additional HTML5 features including HTML5 Drag and Drop and the HTML5
Clipboard API.  Read Original Content

Software FX has announced the release and availability of
jChartFX, a free collection of charts and graphs for business data
visualization and analysis for HTML5, jQuery and JavaScript developers.  Read Original Content

SAP’s mobile HTML5 apps program for developers has produced
a number of apps which are “clearly focused on what the biggest enterprises and
businesses need to get work done on a mobile scale”.  Read Original Content

Phone Arena conducted an iPhone 5 vs. Samsung Galaxy S3 comparison
test to see which device performs better with HTML5.  Read Original Content

Lori MacVittie of F5 explores the question “Is HTML5 the
Answer to Mobile’s VDI Challenge?”  ReadOriginal Content

Kevin Benedict,
Head Analyst for SMAC,
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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.