Building a smartphone app - should your developers be going HTML5 or native?

If you want to test your internet connection without relying on a Flash or Java applet, one of these HTML5 tools may suit your needs.

HTML5 has been promised as the way to escape paying Apple its 30 percent cut of app sales while delivering apps to users, but HTML5-based Web apps have a limitation that has made the promise less ...

Until an app publisher has experience with a new app on a few mobile devices, they cannot begin to learn about the usage patterns for their apps.

Evangelists say the HTML5 movement has so much momentum that it could defeat the native app — an application that is designed to run on a single platform — in as little as two years.

HTML5 has been gaining steam among mobile app developers for several years now. It’s advantages over native apps, such as interoperability across devices, speedier development times and ease of ...

Business Insider believes HTML5 apps are primed to overtake native apps on smartphones in the coming years. Steve Jobs was also big on webapps when the iPhone first came out—sans native app ...

Native apps are expensive to make and hard to promote; with a powerful new upgrade to HTML now emerging, developers may opt for apps that run in mobile browsers.

Mobile app developers in many regions outside the US and Europe are choosing to develop apps in HTML5 rather than iOS but it's iOS that's earning devs the biggest bucks.

HTML5 versus native apps. It's a debate as old as — well, at least three years ago. And pretty much since the beginning of that debate, there has been a general underlying current among the geek ...

Amazon said it has begun accepting HTML5 apps for its Appstore, becoming the first major online store to distribute the browser-based software that can be used on multiple operating systems.

HTML5 apps are revolutionizing web development and user experiences.