Developers dissatisfied with waiting three weeks (or longer) to have their apps and updates available on the App Store are turning their attention to the Web and flocking to HTML5. HTML5 also features ...

Mapquest announced that it has completely redesigned its mobile web app to run in HTML5 and added a number of new features to match the native apps available on Android and iOS. Mapquest announced ...

Inkling, the San Francisco-based startup that’s known for making super slick interactive digital versions of college textbooks and other educational titles for the iPad, has debuted its first ever ...

The New York Times announced today that it is launching a new HTML5-based web app accessible to iPad users at app.nytimes.com. While called an “experimental web app” in the press release, the move ...

The New York Times isn't beyond a little "experimentation" -- not when it comes to iPad apps, at least. The old gray lady today is showing off its "experimental" iPad web app, an HTML5-powered reading ...

HTML5 versus native apps. It’s a debate as old as — well, at least three years ago. And pretty much since the beginning of that debate, there has been a general underlying current among the geek ...

Thanks to its chattiness, the traditional communications protocol for shuttling data around the World Wide Web is not very efficient. Now an HTML5-related standard called WebSocket could cut some of ...

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 ...

It's all coming together, folks. It doesn't take much of a gander at the Chrome Web Store to notice a trend: some of the flashiest, most mature "apps" are actually just in-browser versions of iPad ...

Who hasn’t, at least for a moment, thought a Choose Your Own Adventure book would be fun to write? It’s like making a game out of words. Branching narratives are a surprisingly natural approach to ...

New York Times has come up with its own HTML 5 web app for the iPad in a move that makes the publication’s iOS app redundant. However, it is unlikely to pull the plug on its iOS app anytime soon as ...