苹果终于对「小程序」松手了。就在刚刚，苹果悄然发布了一个可能会改变应用生态的计划——小程序合作伙伴计划（Mini Apps Partner Program），正式宣布为小程序建立制度化的合规框架。「小程序」是介于网页与 App 之间的轻应用形态——用 ...

With Chrome OS, Windows, Mac, or even mobile, these standout PWAs will help you get more done without any of the usual baggage. Say the phrase “progressive web app” to most people — including ...

I’ve covered App.io a few times in the past. The service, which allows app devs to deploy fully useable HTML5 demo versions of their native iOS apps on the web, first launched under the name ...

Apple's new rules have forced e-book sellers to remove buy links from their iOS apps. Now Kobo says it's developing an HTML5 Web app that can be accessed from any Web browser, circumventing Apple's ...

While Android and iOS are the platforms that will guarantee mobile developers an audience in the US and Europe, developers in much of the rest of the world favour HTML5 over iOS. Among mobile app ...

UX design has been getting pretty slick in the world of iOS. Last week, Facebook released Paper (subtitled “Stories from Facebook”), perhaps the best newsfeed app I have seen. This native iOS app is ...

Amazon is announcing a change to its Appstore today, which will now allow developers building HTML5 (web-based) applications to price those apps to sell, just the same as their natively coded ...

There have been a few recent examples of companies making headlines by announcing they were ditching their HTML-based mobile apps and moving to native. Two examples: Facebook, and accountancy startup ...

The ongoing tussle over HTML5 usually gets framed as a battle between Adobe and Apple, Flash vs. the emerging HTML standards. Actually the more interesting fault lines may lie on the iPhone itself, ...

Over the past two decades, the mobile industry has become increasingly stunted by fragmented protocols, standards, and regional differences. But a hot new technology called HTML5 promises to remedy ...

Native and Web-based applications offer a variety of different pluses and minuses, including on the marketing front, with native apps benefitting from the awareness of app stores while HTML5 apps ...

Update March 1: Apple has updated its developer site to say that it has changed its mind, and will not remove the ability to have progressive web apps on the home screen after all. “Developers and ...