Html5 News & Articles

With smartphones now outselling PCs and a recent global CIO  study showing 75% of respondents targeting mobile as a top spending priority, IBM took action to secure its place in the mobile enterprise domain, announcing a "definitive agreement" to acquire mobile app and infrastructure software developer Worklight.

“Our clients are under increased pressure to meet the growing demands of a workforce and customer base that now treat mobility as mission critical to their business,” said Marie Wieck, general manager, IBM application and infrastructure middleware.

With the latest version of Tibbr unleashing in February, the need for real-time human interaction in the office has become even more trifling. The next update of this mobile platform adds a geographical component to the mix, guiding users around any setting or workplace, alerting them to its ins and outs. In Tibbr 3.5, the low level clerk -- the guy who messed up the PO -- has been eliminated in favor of cyber leadership. It’s Second Life, for the real world.

As much as I love those adverts where gadgets and services just work, we all know that is really some marketer's fantasy, a dream that never happens. So here are some of the "features" that have bugged me this year that should be fixed in 2012 by the various powers that be in technology today.

 With an eye toward breaking out of the application confines of the social space, a new service, Webdoc, has launched, claiming the "...most expressive way to share your passion online." The HTML5-powered set of web tools looks to target corporate marketers, with The Guardian, EMI Music,  Nikelodeon and Playboy already on board, but is available to anyone wanting to "...grab content from across the web and express themselves in a moment" using tools as easy as a tweet, but as rich as a web page.

The promise, to mix photos, audio, video, text, drawings and the rest into an instant Webdoc that supports your passion for -- well, just about anything. This toolset includes apps from the company App store, and also allows sharing and embedding on Facebook, Webdoc said. 

Microsoft is progressing at an electric pace with Windows 8 development, and beta users can try the latest test of Internet Explorer 10 exclusively. But analysts reckon it may come too late to save the company's tablet ambitions.

We know that you’ve been waiting with bated breath for Microsoft’s social network to come out of accidental beta. Your time is now.

Let’s hope they have an excellent change management team at Adobe. This month they have slashed 750 full-time positions, killed the mobile version of Adobe Flash Player, acquired an Internet video advertising company and changed strategic direction to focus on digital media and marketing, and it’s just the middle of the month. Now, they’ve decided to donate the Adobe Flex Software Development Kit (SDK) and BlazeDS to the Apache Software Foundation.

Sensio Labs announces that Drupal 8 CMS will be based on Symfony2 components.

With Adobe quitting Flash development for mobile, it looks like Microsoft could give up on Silverlight too, leaving users with no more "incompatible browser" messages and giving developers just one standard to focus on.

Reports suggest that Adobe will move to an Adobe AIR/HTML5 solution for mobile content as it gives up trying to get Flash on our digital devices.

Less than 30 days after the company’s CEO was fired, Yahoo Inc. launched an HTML5 development toolkit (Cocktails) with support for Node.js, JavaScript and CSS3, and blow-your-socks-off social integration apps for mobile devices including its content-rich digital news app called Livestand for the iPad.

But the turmoil rages on at Yahoo as the second-largest shareholder (Third Point LLC) went public on Friday, with an open letter to Yahoo’s board over “deep concerns” in the fiscal direction of the company, and calling for the resignation of co-founder Jerry Yang. 

The move to HTML5 was never in doubt for major search engines like Microsoft Bing and today Microsoft proved that announcing  a new Bing for Mobile apps update using HTML5 that "blends the mobile browser experience with the app experience". 

The first beta of WordPress version 3.3 is officially here for the taking. Among the most exciting improvements is a new drag-and-drop HTML5 media uploader. 

With a focus on APIs over new features, Magnolia International Ltd.’s latest roadmap announcement now includes yet another version of the 4.x release, with a target date of November 2011. This is a managed upgrade approach from the Swiss-based CMS maker, looking to lessen the pain (and perhaps risk) of moving websites and future CMS development to a full-blown Magnolia 5.0 version.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is holding its first ever conference in November. If you're interested in the latest news on HTML5 and the open web platform, mark your calendars and book it to Seattle.