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A pair of well-written blogposts, neither of which are intended as a programmers’ tutorial, highlight the emerging opportunities, and risks, of hybrid mobile apps.

The free open source HTML5 Mobile Framework can be used for building amazing, cross-platform native apps with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

As HTML5 matures, it will be used by developers to create mobile BI apps that run on any browser but also support gestures, location awareness and other mobile device capabilities.

In the mobile world, “age old” questions are those we’ve been asking for the last couple of years, like whether to build a mobile app or a Web site. Now, there’s no question that HTML5 is ...

Yet concerns surrounding HTML5’s architecture linger, along with a debate concerning the use of native mobile apps versus apps developed for the mobile Web.

As a result, hybrid apps running on mobile devices with reasonably modern hardware can achieve highly interactive and impressive user interfaces using just HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.

Mobile app developers see strengths in both paradigms as well as in a hybrid approach The ongoing debate over how to best get applications onto mobile devices — either through native deployments ...

Yes, HTML5 does make things better for mobile environments, thanks to its support for offline data storage and location detection. Those help, but they pale in comparison to what you can do natively.

A few months ago, when Facebook admitted defeat and went native with its iOS app, some thought it was a death-knell for HTML5.

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.