Who hasn’t, at least for a moment, thought a Choose Your Own Adventure book would be fun to write? It’s like making a game out of words. Branching narratives are a surprisingly natural approach to ...

Before we begin, we ought to define the terms, HTML5 app and Native app, to prevent ambiguities, and needless arguments in the comments. If you intend to develop a graphic intensive game, you almost ...

In a previous Linux Journal article (“Developing Portable Mobile Web Applications”, September 2010, www.linuxjournal.com/article/10789), I looked at HTML5 and how ...

New York Times has come up with its own HTML 5 web app for the iPad in a move that makes the publication’s iOS app redundant. However, it is unlikely to pull the plug on its iOS app anytime soon as ...

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The ongoing debate over how to best get applications onto mobile devices — either through native deployments or writing a mobile Web application — is going to remain a front-burner question for ...

HTML5 is still evolving, but in the current mobile landscape, proponents are finding ways around its limitations. 2012 wasn’t a great year for HTML5. If it were a football team, the markup language ...