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Will iOS 5's Safari deliver better support for web editors?

by Michael Rose (Jun 8th, 2011)

One of the long-standing frustrations for anyone who's tried to edit blog posts or web documents using Mobile Safari is the absence of support for the HTML5 contentEditable attribute. The attribute, which began as an Internet Explorer 5.5 feature and later found its way into most modern browsers, ...

Financial Times launches HTML5 web app

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 7th, 2011)

The Financial Times is turning towards HTML5 for its upcoming application (technically, a web app), in contrast to its older native iOS app. FT was not happy with the new subscription model offered by Apple, and was working with Apple to keep the revenue and demographic information from its ...

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen confirms unofficial armistice with Jobs, Apple

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 3rd, 2011)

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen told Walt Mossberg during an interview that the dispute between Adobe and Apple over Flash is a thing of the past. Adobe and Steve Jobs went head to head last year when the Apple CEO publicly criticized the multimedia company and banned apps that were created using ...

The two Apple engineers who created Hype

by Dana Franklin (May 24th, 2011)

Jonathan Deutsch, co-founder of Tumult Inc., recently talked to The Startup Foundry about leaving a stable job at Apple to build Hype, the new HTML5 Animation Builder for Mac OS X. Despite some provocative headlines linking to the story, the reason the founders took on this challenge wasn't borne ...

No Comment: Friskies makes iPad web games for cats

by Mike Schramm (May 24th, 2011)

So it's come to this. Originally, discovering that cats liked to play with the iPad was just a matter of coincidence -- Felix just liked to bat around the Magic Piano, and that was fine. But pet food maker Friskies has blown that idea right out, releasing a line of three full web-based games ...

Big pharmaceutical companies stockpiling iPads for future sales apps

by Chris Ward (May 17th, 2011)

Big pharmaceutical companies spend a lot of time, money and effort trying to attract the attention of doctors in order to get them to use their expensive new products. Doctors, it turns out, are busy people who give the sales reps about 30 seconds of their valuable time -- most of which is ...

Apple approves JavaScript iOS games that don't use a browser

by Chris Ward (Apr 28th, 2011)

Look Ma, no WebKit! Your inner geek and nerd should give each other a little hug this morning as you read about the latest rather cool accomplishment of Dominic Szablewski, creator of the Impact JavaScript HTML 5 game engine. He's just released two free games, Biolab Disaster and Drop, which ...

Adobe releases Wallaby, experimental Flash to HTML 5 conversion tool

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 8th, 2011)

Adobe announced the release of Wallaby, an experimental tool designed to convert FLA files to HTML 5. This initial version of Wallaby is meant to convert animated Flash banners to HTML 5-compliant code. This output is optimized for viewing by WebKit-based browsers, including those on the iPhone, ...

AT&T CEO says App Store is bad for consumers

by Steven Sande (Feb 16th, 2011)

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson must be eating some sour grapes since his company lost its exclusive hold on the US iPhone market. During a keynote speech at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Stephenson said that platform-specific app stores like the ones run by Apple and Google are "bad for ...

360 Panorama: view augmented reality panoramas in Mobile Safari

by Steven Sande (Dec 21st, 2010)

We've talked about 360 Panorama before -- it's a cool app that lets you capture 360° panoramic photos in real time by just moving your iPhone around in a circle. The $0.99 app (available here) has been out for a while, but keeps receiving amazing updates that improve its functionality and wow ...

Pitchfork gets a custom iPod touch page-topper ad

by Mike Schramm (Dec 8th, 2010)

Apple has developed a custom ad for indie music review site Pitchfork. You can go over and see it right now in any WebKit-based browser (so Safari or Chrome) -- an iPod touch pops up in front of the menu bars, and everything gets swept away in the games being played. This ad is notable for a few ...

New HTML5 and web standards support in iOS 4.2

by Michael Gray (Nov 23rd, 2010)

Mobile Web Programming has a detailed writeup of the new HTML5 and W3C future standards support included in yesterday's iOS 4.2 release. These new APIs haven't been fully documented yet by Apple, but these changes have been uncovered as part of Mobile Web Programming's own independent research. ...

Safari tip: Force HTML5 video to open instead of Flash

by Sam Abuelsamid (Nov 22nd, 2010)

As more people get fed up with the poor performance and security flaws of Adobe's Flash Player, they are uninstalling the Flash plug-in from their computers. The problem is that even if a site offers up HTML5 video as an alternative to Flash, trying to get to it from Safari on a Mac will pop up the ...

SlideRocket brings web presentations to iPhone and iPad with HTML5

by Michael Rose (Nov 16th, 2010)

Since the dawn of time, traveling professionals have sought easier ways to present on the go. Pico projectors! Netbooks! Converting presentations to video to show them on iPhones! Then there was Keynote on the iPad, and it was good. Not great, however: presenters with libraries of PPT content have ...

Skyfire browser earns $1 million in first weekend

by David Quilty (Nov 11th, 2010)

Apparently there is a market for Flash on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, judging by the success that the third party browser Skyfire (US$2.99) had in its first weekend in the App Store. The Skyfire browser enables Flash video playback by converting Flash content to HTML5, which is playable on the ...