Amazon has announced a major change to its Appstore that allows developers to set a list price for HTML5 web apps. This update comes almost half a year after Amazon opened its Appstore up to HTML5 ...

His main concern today is how you developers can combine HTML5 with native performance. By the end of the panel, there definitely didn’t seem to be a clear winner between HTML5 and native apps.

Facebook's first HTML5 platform previously dubbed Project Spartan was finally unveiled at the start of October, delivering web apps to iOS devices via the social network's app on the App Store.

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's promise is to streamline and simplify the business of developing and maintaining mobile apps. It also holds out the hope of giving back control to the app creator.

The HTML5 apps are supposed to work on iOS, Android, and desktop browsers. Developers have been working for at least a couple of months with Facebook, and the social network put in a lot of time ...

But adopting HTML5 for mobile apps isn’t a panacea, as reflected in Forrester’s findings. In fact, one of the report’s survey responses noted that 59 percent of the time, apps developed ...

Apple's new rules have forced e-book sellers to remove buy links from their iOS apps. Now Kobo says it's developing an HTML5 Web app that can be accessed from any Web browser, circumventing Apple ...

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 ...

Is it desirable to develop iOS apps in HTML5? I've only read the specification and changes to tags/attributes and the general approach of HTML5. I was told you can make an actual iOS app from HTML5.

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 ...

If the app supported drag-and-drop file imports, as Firefox 3.6 does, this would be a truly robust, and almost desktop-replacing, webapp.