W3C Starts Web Payments Standards Work

Work on payments at W3C was supported in part by the HTML5Apps project, and today, the project’s team is pleased to announce that W3C just launched the Web Payments Working Group to make payments easier and more secure on the

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Interview with Cocomore, agency for marketing and IT services

The HTML5Apps continues its series of interviews of European SMEs. Today, we go to Germany, where the Cocomore headquarters are located. The discussion was held with Alejandro Leiva, based in the Cocomore Spanish office in Seville, is the technical lead

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[News Release] HTML5Apps paves the way to future W3C payment standards and advances mobile Web standardization roadmap

The two-year EU-funded HTML5Apps project proudly looks back to its achievements. The project, ending in September 2015 successfully accelerated the development of standard Web technologies required to make HTML5 apps competitive with native apps, specifically in the areas of Web

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Interview with UbiqWare, cross-platform multi-device provider

The HTML5Apps team continues its series of SMEs interviews across Europe. Today, we go to Spain, and more precisely to Gijón (in Asturias, north of Spain), where is located the startup UbiqWare. UbiqWare is specialized in the development of cross-platform

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[Latest Edition!] Standards for Web apps on mobile – August 2015

A deliverable of the HTML5Apps project, the August 2015 edition of the W3C Standards for Web Applications on Mobile is out! It includes a few changes and additions since May 2015, particularly emerging work such as the proposed charter for

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[Survey Report] State of the Developer Nation Q3 2015

The 9th edition of the State of the Developer Nation Q3 2015 report is now available for download. It presents the key findings from a survey that the HTML5Apps project helped to promote. This report covers all the latest trends

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Contributions to ISOC report on mobile Internet

The Internet Society (ISOC) just released its second annual Global Internet Report, with a focus this year on the mobile Internet. The report explores mobile Internet availability, affordability, and relevance to potential users, and highlights opportunities as well as challenges

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Interview with Beepeers, social apps provider

As part of  the HTML5Apps project work, the team is trying to gain a more detailed understanding of the barriers that developers from European SMEs encounter, and what the subsequent reasons make them avoid or prevent them from developing mobile

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HTML5Apps at Edge Conference

I was present at the Edge conference on 27 June in London, UK, representing the HTML5Apps project. That conference, organized by FT Labs for the past 5 years, targets discussion and debate of leading-edge use of client-side Web technologies. It

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[Web Payments] Standards prep. meeting in NYC

W3C is aiming to streamline Web Payments with new standards that will provide a uniform way for merchants to integrate payments into the Web with a level playing field for payment service providers and value added services. The HTML5Apps project initiated this work

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Closing the Gaps
Native vs. HTML5?
The HTML5Apps project's goal is to close the gaps! Read more in the project's factsheet pdf file.
Project Funding
EU logo This project is funded by the European Union through the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2013-2015) under grant agreement n°611327 - HTML5 Apps.