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• New iPad complicates life for HTML 5 developers

  By John Cox | 05 April, 2012 20:46

  Apple’s new iPad, already a hit with consumers with its high-resolution display, is nonetheless underwhelming some HTML 5 developers. The tablet’s iOS 5.1 operating system complicates HTML 5 data storage, offers no expanded HTML 5 support, and the tablet’s Web performance is at best only at par with iPad 2.

• Commonwealth Bank rolls out new mobile, tablet apps

  By Ross Catanzariti | 12 July, 2011 13:43

  The Commonwealth Bank today rolled out a suite of new mobile banking applications including NetBank for iPad and Android tablets, and a new CommBank mobile banking app for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7 smartphone platforms.

• HTML5 may help Web pages talk, listen

  By Joab Jackson | 08 September, 2010 02:34

  Sometime in the near future, users might not only read Web pages but hold conversations with them as well, at least if a new activity group in the W3C (World Wide Consortium) bears fruit.

• HTML5 raises new security issues

  By Joab Jackson | 21 August, 2010 03:07

  When it comes to new security issues, the security team for the Firefox browser have the new version of the Web HyperText Markup Language, HTML5, foremost on the mind.

• Sencha launches HTML5 framework for mobile apps

  By Paul Krill | 17 June, 2010 20:14

  Sencha on Thursday is rolling out a mobile application development framework that leverages HTML5 technologies.

• This Week In GeekTech: Chips, Flash and HTML 5

  By Chris Brandrick | 06 June, 2010 21:44

  It's time for your weekly slice of geek. This week the team has news on what chips have been revealed at the recent Computex expo in Taiwan, how Apple is showing off the capabilities of Web technology HTML5, and details on how Flash is becoming a reality on the iPhone.

• JavaScript library lets iPad read Flash advertisements

  By Jeremy Kirk | 03 June, 2010 01:41

  A mobile advertising company has written a JavaScript library that makes Flash advertisements viewable on devices such as the iPad, working around Apple's opposition to Adobe Systems' multimedia platform.

• The web will unify fragmented mobile OS world, says Opera

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 June, 2010 01:58

  Norwegian browser maker Opera has high hopes for the combination of mobile browsers and HTML 5, which will let web-based applications compete better with native applications, according to co-founder Jon von Tetzchner.

• Adobe backs HTML5 in Dreamweaver

  By Paul Krill | 20 May, 2010 02:45

  Adobe Systems, embroiled in a Web technology feud with Apple that is at least partially attributable to the HTML5 specification, will nonetheless add on Wednesday HTML5 and CSS3 (Cascading Style Sheets) support to its Dreamweaver HTML authoring tool.

• Adobe escalates feud with Apple over Flash

  By Gregg Keizer | 14 May, 2010 03:07

  Adobe today countered recent attacks by Apple against its Flash technology with a Web-based ad campaign and an open letter written by the firm's co-founders.

• Mozilla sets Firefox 4 release for November

  By Gregg Keizer | 12 May, 2010 03:39

  Mozilla plans to ship a beta of Firefox 4 next month, and a final by the end of November, a company executive said yesterday.

• Mozilla wants to make Firefox a speedster

  By Paul Krill | 12 May, 2010 04:22

  Mozilla, with its planned Firefox 4 browser, intends to make the browser "super-duper fast" and enable use of standard Web technologies including HTML5 and beyond, a Mozilla official said in a blog entry this week.

• Microsoft gets some heat over HTML 5 plans

  By James Niccolai | 07 May, 2010 06:04

  Microsoft came under fire from some of its rivals on Wednesday for its decision not to offer Internet Explorer 9 -- and hence support for the upcoming HTML 5 standard -- to users of its older Windows XP operating system.

• Apple's behavior a throwback to 1984, Adobe CTO says

  By James Niccolai | 06 May, 2010 06:58

  Apple's refusal to allow Flash on the iPhone hurts innovation and is "like 1984 in a lot of ways," Adobe Systems' CTO said on Wednesday, implying that Apple has become the "Big Brother" it rebelled against in its iconic TV ad from that year.

• Google official reaffirms HTML5 readiness

  By Joab Jackson | 01 May, 2010 06:19

  Despite concerns that it is far from being finished, HTML5 is ready for use, at least for most platforms and for most duties, asserted a Google developer.