Sencha began offering on Monday Sencha Touch, an HTML5-based mobile application development framework for touch-based devices. The company also detailed plans for an upgrade to its Ext JS JavaScript ...

LinkedIn has just launched the latest versions of its mobile apps, and in a stunning reversal, it’s gone from mobile web-based apps back to fully native. Less than a year ago, the company was touting ...

Cloud-based HR software company Workday has launched the latest version of its suite with an emphasis on mobile access through HTML5 web apps, the company announced today. Workday competes with SAP ...

I returned to Parc 55 (Mission conference room) to see Max Katz‘s (Exadel Developer Relations) “Building Mobile Apps with HTML5 and Java” Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) presentation. Specifically, Katz is ...

Business Insider believes HTML5 apps are primed to overtake native apps on smartphones in the coming years. Steve Jobs was also big on webapps when the iPhone first came out—sans native app ...

Mozilla's WebAPI is an ambitious new project aimed at breaking down the proprietary app systems on today's mobile devices. Forget separate apps for iOS, Android, and other mobile platforms, just write ...

Box.net plans to develop “semi-local” apps for various mobile operating systems using a common HTML5 codebase, in a bid to keep up with the proliferation of smartphone and tablet platforms. Box.net ...

Following this week's demonstration of the Unreal engine running on Flash 11 and ongoing rumours about HTML5's performance on iOS 5, we returned to a current favourite, asking the Mavens: Is Unreal ...

In HTML5's case, opinion has polarised around whether the technology truly is the solution to the fragmentation in the mobile space or, conversely, that it will never match the capabilities and offer ...

ABI Research predicts that roughly one-third of the world’s population will have a capable HTML5 browser in their pocket in five years or less. It’s true that today, mobile app downloads are driving ...

The general consensus when it comes to HTML5 apps is that their dominance is a question of when rather than if. According to IDC, the standard's big day will come at some point over the course of the ...

Sencha on Thursday is rolling out a mobile application development framework that leverages HTML5 technologies. The Sencha Touch framework enables developers to build rich Web applications offering ...