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[New Edition!] Standards for Web apps on mobile – January 2015

A deliverable of the HTML5Apps project, the January 2015 edition of the W3C Standards for Web Applications on Mobile includes a few changes and additions since October 2014. Notably, the document has been re-organized around the categories defined as Application

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[New edition!] Standards for Web apps on mobile – October 2014

A deliverable of the HTML5Apps project, the October 2014 edition of the W3C Standards for Web Applications on Mobile includes changes and additions since July 2014, notably emerging work such as: the Second Screen Presentation Working Group API to request

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HTML5 is a Web standard!

The W3C HTML5Apps team is very proud to relay the good news that HTML5 reached the W3C Web standard status today! HTML5 defines the fifth major revision of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the format used to build Web pages

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[HTML5] Proposed Recommendation – Call for Review

The W3C HTML Working Group, responsible for the HTML5 specification’s progress, has published a Proposed Recommendation of HTML5 (on 16 September 2014). This specification is intended to become a W3C Recommendation (or Web standard). The W3C Membership and other interested

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[New edition!] Standards for Web apps on mobile – July 2014

The HTML5Apps project is glad to announce the a new edition of the “Standards for Web Applications on Mobile: current state and roadmap”. This July 2014 edition notably features a new section on payment, which tracks the work initiated by

Posted in HTML5, Mobile, Payment, Standardization

[HTML5] Call for Implementations

W3C is pleased to invite implementations of the HTML5 specification, which reached the Candidate Recommendation status on 31 July 2014. This Candidate Recommendation is expected to end no sooner than 28 August 2014. A preliminary implementation report is available, but

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HTML5Apps at the Berlin’s Extensible Web Summit

Quite a few HTML5Apps related topics will be discussed at the European Extensible Web Summit on September 11, 2014, in Berlin, Germany. This summit is designed to bring in platform developers, framework developers and Web developers with an interest in

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HTML5 as Web standard: the plan goes as expected!

We like sharing the good news! Our colleague Philippe Le Hégaret, W3C Interaction Domain Leader, indicated, yesterday in a W3C’s blog post, that HTML5 is on its way to reach the W3C Recommendation (or Web standard) status by the end

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Vision Mobile on the App Developer Economy

Last month, VisionMobile published Developer Economics Q1 2014: State of the Developer Nation, which “presents the latest trends in app development, based on our survey of over 7,000 developers” from 127 countries. W3C Head of Communications, Ian Jacobs, spoke with

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HTML5Apps team at Mobile World Congress 2014

The HTML5Apps team will be present at MWC’14, from 24 to 27 February 2014, In Barcelona. Meet with us in App Planet, Stand 8.1G15, at W3C’s booth! We will showcase many Open Web Platform (as the premier platform for application

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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.