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  Mobile apps can feature ready-to-use cloud services

  Cloud-based app features and services now can quickly be included in mobile apps, with an improved toolset from Appcelerator.

• New iPad complicates life for HTML 5 developers

  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.

• HTML5 specification needs to be simplified: Developer

  The HTML5 Web development specification needs to be simplified in order to foster adoption across the industry, a developer has warned.

• Facebook Places finally launches in Australia

  The long wait for Facebook Places is over, with the social networking site rolling out the location based social media platform in Australia.

• HTML5 may help Web pages talk, listen

  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.

• How to use HTML5 on your website today

  There's been lots written about the politics and process of the emerging HTML5 specification, but what working Web developers primarily want to know is: What can I do with HTML5, and when can I start using it? The good news is that there's a lot you can do with HTML5. The better news is that there's a lot that you can do with HTML5 today.

• Geek 101: HTML5, CSS3 and you

  HTML is the standard language used to build Web pages. It isn't going anywhere, but some new technologies--such as HTML5 and CSS3--are already changing how you interact with Web sites. Here's what these technologies are, what they can do, and why you should care.

• In HTML5 war, Microsoft guy slams "President of the United States of Google"

  Microsoft and Google are fighting yet another public relations battle, this time over the HTML5 video standards to be used in the next generation of Web browsers.

• What to expect from HTML 5

  Among Web developers, anticipation is mounting for HTML 5, the overhaul of the Web markup language currently under way at the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C).

• HTML 5 progresses despite challenges

  Development of HTML 5, the highly touted upgrade to the language of the Web, is progressing but still faces obstacles, including lack of a standard video codec, said an official of the World Wide Web Consortium at a gathering on Tuesday.

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  HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?

  HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.

Whitepapers about html 5

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  HTML5 and security on the new web

  There are lots of changes happening to the key technologies that power the web. The new version of HTML, the dominant web language, offers impressive enhancements for rich web applications. But as HTML5 comes into greater use we’ll see new security issues arise. It’s typical for a new technology to have defects and pitfalls. And although the standard is still being defined, it's already being implemented. So how does HTML5 stand up to security scrutiny?