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Microsoft Open-Sources Its Edge Javascript Engine

Microsoft has announced that they will open-source their Javascript engine, known as Chakra. This is the same javascript engine that powers their Internet Explorer browser, as part of the ChakraCore platform. Chakra is a powerful Javascript JIT executor that encompasses a broad sets of ES2015.

HTML5, Semantic Web

12-07-2015

RIP Flash: Will you be missed?

“Flash Player is dead. Its time has passed... It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates. It doesn't work on most mobile devices. It's a fossil, left over from the era of closed standards and unilateral corporate control of Web technology.” The words of the Occupy Flash have come true.

Jennifer Riggins

12-04-2015

YouTube Now Defaults to HTML5 Video

YouTube announced it defaults to HTML5 as opposed to Flash in most browser scenarios. Since it announced HTML5 support four years ago, a number of improvements allowed the move.

01-30-2015

W3C's Battery Status API Powers Web App Usability
W3C Battery Status

The W3C's Battery Status API defines a way for developers to determine the battery status of a hosting device, enabling them to create more power-efficient applications.

12-15-2014

Amazon Brings HTML5 Support to Fire TV

Amazon wants developers to push their media apps and games beyond tablets and smartphones directly to TVs.

12-11-2014

Transitions API for Chrome to Animate the Web

Google is looking to create an enhanced user experience via a Navigation Transitions API that provides seamless transitions in browsers and apps.

Browsers, Application Development, HTML5

11-26-2014

HTML5 Moves to W3C Recommendation Status
W3C CSS Validator W3C Markup Validator

In a milestone for the 10-year-old markup language, the W3C HTML Working Group has published the popular HTML5 as a W3C Recommendation.

Standards, HTML5

11-05-2014

Dynamsoft SDK Released For Document Scanning Within Browser

The New SDK by Dynamsoft will allow a connection to TWAIN scanners to support document scanning modules within HTML5-based browsers without old plugins.

ProgrammableWeb Staff

Scanning, HTML5, SDK

09-16-2014

Famo.us Preps Web Browser Engine for Public Beta

Rendering engines inside browsers have been the subject of some of the fiercest debate across the Web. Although HTML5 represents a significant advance in terms of the richness of Web applications, industry giants such as Facebook have balked over what are often described as “black box” implementations of rendering engines in browsers that support HTML5 and that were not nearly as fast as native environments on mobile computing devices.

News Services, Enterprise, HTML5

03-14-2014

Sencha Converts Microsoft Azure into BaaS Platform

Mobile developers have come to rely on a number of backend-as-a-service (BaaS) offerings that make developing and deploying mobile applications a whole lot simpler. Now Sencha wants to take that that concept to the next logical conclusion in the form of an extension to its application development tools that turns the Microsoft Azure cloud into a BaaS environment for mobile applications.

News Services, Enterprise, Mobile

03-04-2014

Seven Conversations Overheard at DeveloperWeek 2014

Industry conferences such as DeveloperWeek 2014 are a great way to take the temperature of current industry thinking: whether it be discussions among developers over coffee, an aside in a panel presentation, or the chance to compare two presentation styles from developer-focused services. With ProgrammableWeb at DeveloperWeek in San Francisco, here is some of the buzz that we heard.

News Services, Events, HTML5

02-20-2014

Telerik Launches Cross-Platform Development Environment

Marking what has been a multi-year journey, Telerik today unveiled Telerik Platform, which combines a rich set of tools for developing applications for multiple platforms with cloud services that manage the application lifecycle process.

News Services, Enterprise, Mobile

01-28-2014

Appirio Relaunches Developer Network Complete with API

Well over 600,000 developers participate in a topcoder community that not only allows them to expand their development skills, but also gives them access to projects where they can get paid for participating.

News Services, Cloud, Crowdsourcing

01-15-2014

Javascript Gains While HTML5 Stalls

Mobile application developers are increasingly moving in the direction of Javascript while at the same time losing their enthusiasm for HTML5. According to a new survey of 6,698 mobile application developers conducted by International Data Corp. on behalf of appcelerator, a provider of tools for building mobile applications, 47.3 percent ranked JavaScript as the most relevant programming language they use today. By comparison, Java came in second at 35 percent while Objective C was third with 32 percent.

News Services, Tools, Enterprise

12-23-2013

The State of the Web Audio API

HTML5 and its APIs have gone a long way toward making Web applications compete with native applications. A key area in which HTML5 has seen the maximum attention from developers has been in its support for media technologies. Developers have used HTML5 audio and video APIs in tremendously innovative ways. However, it has not been an easy ride, with developers complaining about the lack of support for complex audio and video functions.

API, Browsers, HTML5

11-25-2013

Telerik Uses RESTful APIs to Extend Agile Project Management Reach

One of the primary reasons that organizations embrace agile development methodologies is on the assumption that faster application development will result in more applications being developed faster. The challenge is actually managing that process in a world where the number of languages and data sources being used is rapidly expanding.

News Services, Tools, Enterprise

10-31-2013

Goo Technologies Partners with Mozilla to Showcase the Power of Web Audio API

Goo Technologies, leader in HTML5 high-end graphics for interactive visualizations, has collaborated with Mozilla to create an interactive graphics and music application that demonstrates the features of the latest Firefox release. The demo, Songs of Diridum, showcases the Web Audio API utilized in the latest Firefox release. Before the Web Audio API, a third party was needed to effectively add audio to web apps (i.e. plugins, Flash, etc.). Web Audio embeds audio processing, filtering, and other modern audio features directly into applications.

API, Audio, Browsers

10-30-2013

Reining in the Agile Development Chaos

Chaos usually reigns within most application development organizations; a situation that in many ways has been made all that much worse by the simultaneous rise of agile development methodologies and mobile computing.

News Services, Tools, Enterprise

08-20-2013

Mobile Developer Becomes Redundant

The phrase mobile application developer gets frequently bandied about because for a while not it’s required specific tools and expertise to build these types of applications. But as general purpose application development tools become more tightly integrated with HTML5, Javscript and cascading style sheets (CSS) a question about whether the average IT organization is going to need dedicated tools for building mobile application not only arises, the whole concept of being a mobile developer may eventually become as quaint as the phrase Web developer before it.

News Services, Tools, Enterprise

07-10-2013

SAP Aims to Serve One Billion by 2015

By 2015 SAP aims to have has one billion people interact with some piece of the company’s software. The folks at SAP are not saying where there are now in terms of achieving that goal, but as part of achieving that goal SAP has been releasing a raft of applications that one would not normally associate with a provider of enterprise applications.

Enterprise, Mobile, Cloud

07-02-2013

The Challenges of Being a Mobile App Developer

Just about everybody agrees that mobile computing is the biggest thing happening in IT these days; it’s just that nobody can seem to agree about how best to go about it. Some developers swear by native applications that take advantage of every feature of the platform, while others argue for an HTML5 approach that sacrifices some of those features in the name of consistency and the ability to more easily support multiple mobile computing platforms. Others still, make the case for a hybrid approach that combines elements of both development strategies.

News Services, Enterprise, Mobile

06-28-2013

Tutorials and Examples
Bulletin Messenger

ProgrammableWeb Staff

05-03-2013

Appy Pie Adds SoundCloud and Beatport APIs to App Builder Platform
SoundCloud Beatport

Appy Pie, cloud based mobile apps builder, has announced the inclusion of two new music APIs for its Do-it-Yourself mobile application platform. Integration with the SoundCloud and Beatport APIs will allow users to access their music libraries remotely without consuming mobile device memory.

Tools, Mobile, Music

03-19-2013

Sencha Remakes Facebook HTML5 App Using API
Sencha

Remember when Mark Zuckerberg blamed the problematic old Facebook mobile app--dubbed "freakishly slow" by some--on "betting too much on HTML 5?" So does backend-as-a-service (BAAS) provider Sencha, and to rebut Zuckerberg's assertion that using HTML5 was "one of [Facebook's] biggest mistakes," Sencha built its own mobile webapp, Fastbook, to demonstrate that HTML5 is ready for prime time.

Best Practices, Social, Standards

12-20-2012

Play With Clay.io
Clay.io

I just had a lot of fun reviewing the Clay.io HTML 5 games site. Of course as part of my due diligence I had to actually play some of the games on the site. Just part of the job, right? I've been interested in this HTML5 app / game thing for a bit, and that's what Clay.io is all about. Clay.io has a clear value offering to developers and a simple revenue stream: provide a javascript API to developers and take a 20% cut of any revenue generated by the game.

API, Games, HTML5

10-26-2012