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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

Posted in Payment, Standardization

[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

Posted in HTML5, html5apps, Mobile, Payment, Standardization

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

A deliverable of the HTML5Apps project, the May 2015 edition of the W3C Standards for Web Applications on Mobile is out! It includes a few changes and additions since January 2015. Notably: Published as First Public Working Draft the audio

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[Web Payments] Use Cases Published

The W3C Web Payments Interest Group has just published a set of Web Payments Use Cases (v1.0) as W3C First Public Working Draft (FPWD). The interest group, formed in October 2014 thanks to the work initiated by the HTML5Apps project,

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HTML5Apps at MWC’15

The HTML5Apps/W3C team is present at the Mobile World Congress 2015. Dominique Hazaël-Massieux is on-site at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain, from Monday 2 through Thursday 5 March 2015. The past year has seen significant milestones in W3C with

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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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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.